Fossil Earthquakes: The Formation and Preservation of Pseudotachylytes (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 111)

The topics covered in this book encompass the principl results of field investigations, analyses of meso-scale and micro-scale textures and structures, laboratory experiments, chemical analyses, conceptual fault models, as well as the implications of fault related pseudotachylyte an its related fault rocks for our understanding of earthquakes. We hope that this book helps to bridge the gap between seismology and geology and that it encourages further studies of earthquake and seismic faulting processes. "This book focuses on the earthquake source materials produced or deformed by both seismic faulting and seismic creep within seismogenic fault zones at different levels of the crust. In particular, the mechanisms and processes involved in the formation of earthquake materials are covered also including the principal results of field investigations, analyses of meso-scale and micro-scale textures and structures, laboratory experiments, chemical analyses, conceptual fault models, as well as the implications of fault-related pseudotachylite and its related fault rocks for our understanding of earthquakes. This book is intended to help bridge the gape between seismology and geology and to encourage further studies of earthquake mechanisms and seismic faulting processes."--Jacket Fossil Earthquakes......Page 2 1-Introduction......Page 12 2-Terminology and Origin of Pseudotachylyte......Page 15 3-Pseudotachylyte-Related Fault Rocks and Conceptual Fault Models......Page 26 4-Tectonic Environment and Structure of Pseudotachylyte Veins......Page 56 5-Pseudotachylyte Matrix......Page 83 6-Microlites......Page 112 7-Fragments Within Pseudotachylyte Veins......Page 145 8-Chemical Composition and Melting Processes of Pseudotachylyte......Page 165 9-Formation of Pseudotachylyte in the Brittle and Plastic Regimes......Page 183 10.Crushing-Origin Pseudotachylyte and Veinlet Cataclastic Rocks......Page 231 11-Landslide-related Pseudotachylyte......Page 270 12-Experimentally Generated Pseudotachylyte......Page 287 References......Page 324

This book focuses on the earthquake source materials produced or deformed by both seismic faulting and aseismic creep within seismogenic fault zones at different levels of the crust. In particular, the mechanisms and processes involved in the formation of earthquake materials are covered. The book is intended to help bridge the gap between seismology and geology and to encourage further studies of earthquake mechanisms and seismic faulting processes.