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Faulting Mechanisms

Faulting Mechanisms is a seismological construct that characterizes the specific processes and physical conditions governing the formation and movement of fractures in planetary lithospheres due to stress accumulation and release.

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Active tectonics of the Alpine--Himalayan Belt between western Turkey and Pakistan

James Jackson, Dan McKenzie · Geophysical Journal International · 1984 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation

An Yin, Peter E. Rumelhart, Robert F. Butler et al. · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2002 · 738 citations

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The seismogenic zone of subduction thrust faults

R. D. Hyndman, Makoto Yamano, D. A. Oleskevich · Island Arc · 1997 · 627 citations

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A mechanism for syn-collisional rock exhumation and associated normal faulting: Results from physical modelling

Alexander I. Chemenda, Maurice Mattauer, Jacques Malavieille et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1995 · 534 citations

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Central role of detachment faults in accretion of slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere

J. Escartı́n, Deborah K. Smith, J. Cann et al. · Nature · 2008 · 505 citations

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    Smithsonian Institution, United States

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    Carnegie Institution for Science, United States

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    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

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    Hiroo Kanamori

    California Institute of Technology, United States

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