The opposite-sense fault block rotation across the continental strike-slip faulting plays an important role in accommodating crustal deformation north of East Iran orogen. This research constrains post-Neogene kinematics NW-SE to E-W left-lateral transpressional zones at northern termination N-S striking right-lateral Neh system Using two case studies, we analyzed Birjand splay and Shekarab tra...

13 The Great Glen Fault (GGF) trends NNE-SSW across northern Scotland. According to 14 previous studies, the GGF developed as a left-lateral strike slip fault during the Caledonian 15 Orogeny (Ordovician to Early Devonian). However, it then reactivated right-laterally in the 16 Tertiary. We discuss additional evidence for this later phase. At Eathie and Shandwick, minor 17 folds and faults in f...

Computer-aided fault imaging and interpretation is a fundamental tool for subsurface structure characterization and modeling, and the existing methods are primarily based on seismic discontinuity analysis (e.g., coherence and semblance) that evaluates the lateral variation of waveform and/or amplitude. However, such attributes have a limited resolution on subtle faults without apparent displace...

We use three-dimensional dynamic (spontaneous) rupture models to investigate the nearly simultaneous ruptures of the Susitna Glacier thrust fault and the Denali strike-slip fault. With the 1957 Mw 8.3 Gobi-Altay, Mongolia, earthquake as the only other well-documented case of significant, nearly simultaneous rupture of both thrust and strike-slip faults, this feature of the 2002 Denali fault ear...

Topographically expressed zones of flow accumulation often coincide with fault intersections because of increased rock fracturing. We have conducted a study of the interrelationships between topographically expressed accumulation zones and fault intersections, and the function of these sites in landscape evolution. The investigation has been performed with the use of digital terrain models, geo...

Right-lateral surface displacement reaching 11⁄2 centimeters occurred over a ten-kilometer section of the Imperial fault in association with a magnitude 3.6 earthquake on March 4, 1966, the smallest known earthquake yet associated with surface displacement. The displacement is documented by field observations of en-echelon cracking in pavement and the offset of the white center line of Highway ...

Oblique subduction at a high rate of convergence along much of the Middle America Trench results in northwest-directed trench-parallel block motion. Accommodation of this motion along northwest-striking dextral strike-slip faults has been postulated; however, in Nicaragua such faults are not well developed. We suggest instead that this motion is accommodated by bookshelf faulting that includes ...

This paper addresses a method for fault detection (FD) in linear parameters varying (LPV) systems by maximizing the fault to residual sensitivity. It uses the newly developed H− index properties and minimizing the well known H∞ norm for worst case uncertainties and disturbance attenuation. A loop shaping approach for the H− FD problem is proposed. The multi-objectives problem is formulated as L...