This thesis investigates continental deformation at many different spatial and temporal scales and at several plate-tectonic settings. Our main purpose is to understand how the continental crust behaves under applied forces, both over geologic times and over shorter time scales such as the seismic cycle. The thesis consists of separate investigations of long-term and short-term plate boundary d...

The characteristics of near-fault ground motion are investigated considering heterogeneous slip distribution on the fault plane. Areas on the fault plane with large slip in compare with the average slip on the fault are known as asperity. The characteristics of strong ground motions in near-fault area are strongly affected by faulting parameters such as asperity location, maximum slip of asperi...

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 ...

The Northern Branch of the North Anatolian Fault System controls and deforms Izmit Basin Sapanca Lake in study area. Unlike Basin, oblique normal faults with WNW–ESE trending maximum length 5 km south basin have contributed to deformation process formation Basin. fault sets mainly incline north. N-S width dextral strike-slip active was determined as 9 at 3.8 basin. Further, minimum principal st...

Internal deformation within the downgoing plate in subduction zones to accommodate bending of as it starts subduct is reflected widespread intraplate seismicity. This seismicity, extending from outer rise and trench slope down intermediate depths slab, exhibits a wide variety focal mechanism types, often indicative accumulation recovery down-dip curvature through combination normal-faulting thr...

This study documents seismic reflection evidence that two different bolide impacts significantly disrupted stratigraphic and depositional processes on the West Florida Platform (Gulf of Mexico). The first impact terminated Late Cretaceous Epoch (Chicxulub impact, Mexico; ca. 66 Ma; end-Maastrichtian age). second took place in late Eocene (Chesapeake Bay Virginia, USA, portion Chesapeake Bay; 35...