Current motion on faults of the san andreas system in central california inferred from recent gps and terrestrial survey measurements... Both two- and three-dimensional models of dislocations in an elastic half-space were used to model the deformation and to investigate the effects of structural complexities such as a low-rigidity fault zone, the depth to which surface creep extends, geometrical complexities of the fault system and along-strike variations in slip rate....
When ‘smaller is stronger’ no longer holds... Here we present a perspective to highlight typical scenarios in which the single-crystal strength is influenced by surface stresses, diffusion-mediated surface creep, or dislocation-starvation-engendered high-stresses in the crystal interior, leading to ‘smaller is weaker’ or ‘plateau limited by ideal strength’....
No significant steady state surface creep along the north anatolian fault offshore istanbul: results of 6 months of seafloor acoustic ranging... Forward modeling shows that the data better fit a locked state or a very moderate surface creep-less than 6mm/yr compared to a far-field slip rate of over 20mm/yr-suggesting that the fault segment is currently accumulating stress
Insar observations of strain accumulation and fault creep along the chaman fault system, pakistan and afghanistan... We further identify a 340 km long segment displaying aseismic surface creep along the Chaman Fault, with maximum surface creep rate of 8.1 ± 2 mm/yr....
