The paper examines the behaviour of buried continuous pipelines crossing strike-slip faults using experimental and numerical modelling. A newly developed experiment setup is presented along with derivation relevant scaling laws non-dimensional terms governing global response to faulting. Four model tests are carried out understand performance results through derived framework. Three-dimensional...

Abstract We present pore-fluid geochemistry and heat-flow data along the SWIM1 fault in Horseshoe Abyssal Plain (northeastern Atlantic Ocean). The is part of transcurrent plate boundary between Africa Eurasia cuts through as much 5-km-thick sediments overlying >140 Ma oceanic lithosphere. In a number places, restraining segments (as long 15 km) generate anticlines (positive flower struct...

On 24 August 2014, the M 6.0 South Napa earthquake shook much of the San Francisco Bay area, leading to significant damage in the NapaValley. The earthquake occurred in the vicinity of the West Napa fault (122.313° W, 38.22° N, 11.3 km), a mapped structure located between the Rodger’s Creek and Green Valley faults, with nearly pure right-lateral strike-slip motion (strike 157°, dip 77°, rake –1...

Abstract Most faults in Iceland strike roughly parallel to the divergent plate boundary, a part of North American‐Eurasian which would be expected lead primarily normal faulting. However, several studies have observed significant component rift‐parallel strike‐slip faulting Iceland. To investigate these fault kinematics, we use boundary element method model slip and crustal stress patterns Icel...

The Barkol Tagh and Karlik Tagh ranges of the easternmost Tien Shan are a natural laboratory for studying the fault architecture of an active termination zone of a major intracontinental mountain range. Barkol and Karlik Tagh and lesser ranges to the north are bounded by active thrust faults that locally deform Quaternary sediments. Major thrusts in Karlik Tagh connect along strike to the east ...

We present a velocity and strain rate model for the northern Walker Lane derived from a compilation of geodetic velocities and corrected for transient effects owing to historic earthquakes on the Central Nevada seismic belt. We fi nd that from 37°N to 40°N, the Walker Lane is characterized by an ~100-km-wide zone with near-constant strain rates associated with ~10 mm yr total motion across the ...