The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults

Edited by Timothy H Dixon and J. Casey Moore

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September, 2007
Cloth, 692 pages, 10 tables, 242 figures, and 3 plates
ISBN: 978-0-231-13866-6
$135.00 / £93.00

The Thermal State of 1824 Ma Upper Lithosphere 78

Influence of Subducting Topography on Earthquake 123

Pore Pressure and Fluid Flow in the Northern Barbados 148

Pore Pressure within Underthrust Sediment in Subduction 171

Deformation and Mechanical Strength of Sediments at 210

Seismic Reflection Imaging 257

How Accretionary Prisms Elucidate Seismogenesis 288

A Review 317

Seismic and Geodetic Studies 450

Anomalous Earthquake Ruptures at Shallow Depths 476

Secular Transient and Seasonal Crustal Movements in Japan 16

Elastic and Viscoelastic Models of Crustal Deformation 540

Distinct Updip Limits to Geodetic Locking and Microseismicity 576

Regional Scale Deformation 600

Subduction and Mountain Building in the Central Andes 624

List of Contributors 661

Related Subjects

• Geology
• Oceanography

Series

• MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Earth Science Series

About the Author

Timothy H. Dixon is a professor of tectonics, geodesy, and remote sensing at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, which is associated with the University of Miami. J. Casey Moore is professor of earth sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz.

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