The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults (Hardcover)

Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults: Introduction, by Timothy H. Dixon and J. Casey Moore
2. The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults: What We Know and Don't Know, R. D. Hyndman
Part II. The Incoming Plate
3. Sediment Inputs to Subduction Zones: Why Lithostratigraphy and Clay Mineralogy Matter, by Michael B. Underwood
4. The Thermal State of 18 –24 Ma Upper Lithosphere Subducting Below the Nicoya Peninsula, Northern Costa Rica Margin, by M. Hutnak, A. T. Fisher, C. A. Stein, R. Harris, K. Wang, E. Silver, G. Spinelli, M. Pfender, H. Villinger, R. MacKnight, P. Costa Pisani, H. DeShon, and C. Diamente
5. Influence of Subducting Topography on Earthquake Rupture, by Susan L. Bilek
Part III. Convergent Margin Structure, Fluids and Subduction Thrust Evolution
6. Pore Pressure and Fluid Flow in the Northern Barbados Accretionary Complex: A Synthesis, by Barbara A. Bekins and Elizabeth J. Screaton
7. Pore Pressure within Underthrust Sediment in Subduction Zones, by Demian M. Saffer
8. Deformation and Mechanical Strength of Sediments at the Nankai Subduction Zone: Implications for Prism Evolution and Decollement Initiation and Propagation, by Julia K. Morgan, Elizabeth B. Sunderland, né E. Blanche Ramsey, and Maria V. S. Ask
9. The Nicaragua Convergent Margin: Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Source of a Tsunami Earthquake, by Kirk D. McIntosh, Eli A. Silver, Imtiaz Ahmed, Arnim Berhorst, Cesar R. Ranero, Robyn K. Kelly, and Ernst R. Flueh
10. How Accretionary Prisms Elucidate Seismogenesis in Subduction Zones, by J. Casey Moore, Christie Rowe, and Francesca Meneghini
Part IV. Laboratory Studies
11. Friction of the Smectite Clay Montmorillonite: A Review and Interpretation of Data, by Diane E. Moore and David A. Lockner
12. Fault Friction and the Upper Transition from Seismic to Aseismic Faulting, by Chris Marone and Demian M. Saffer
13. Laboratory-Observed Faulting in Intrinsically and Apparently Weak Materials: Strength, Seismic Coupling, Dilatancy, and Pore-Fluid Pressure, by N. M. Beeler
Part V. Seismic and Geodetic Studies
14. Asperities and Quasi-Static Slips on the Subducting Plate Boundary East of Tohoku, Northeast Japan, by Akira Hasegawa, Naoki Uchida, Toshihiro Igarashi, Toru Matsuzawa, Tomomi Okada, Satoshi Miura, and Yoko Suwa
15. Anomalous Earthquake Ruptures at Shallow Depths on Subduction Zone Megathrusts, by Thorne Lay and Susan Bilek
16. Secular, Transient and Seasonal Crustal Movements in Japan from a Dense GPS Array: Implication for Plate Dynamics in Convergent Boundaries, by Kosuke Heki
17. Elastic and Viscoelastic Models of Crustal Deformation in Subduction Earthquake Cycles, by Kelin Wang
18. Distinct Updip Limits to Geodetic Locking and Microseismicity at the Northern Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone: Evidence for Two Mechanical Transitions, by Susan Y. Schwartz and Heather R. DeShon
Part VI. Regional Scale Deformation
19. Collision Versus Subduction: From a Viewpoint of Slab Dehydration, by Tetsuzo Seno
20. Subduction and Mountain Building in the Central Andes, by Jonas Kley and Tim Vietor
List of Contributors
Index