Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones

by Joao C. Duarte

Overview

Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones bridges the gap between the classic plate tectonic theory and new emerging ideas, offering an assessment of the state-of-the-art, pending questions, and future directions in the study of transform plate boundaries and fracture zones. The book includes a number of case studies and reviews on both oceanic and continental tectonic settings.

Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones is a timely reference for a variety of researchers, including geophysicists, seismologists, structural geologists and tectonicists, as well as specialists in exploration geophysics and natural hazards. This book can also be used as an up-to-date reference at universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128120644
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	09/28/2018
Pages:	478
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. João C. Duarte works in tectonics, geodynamics and marine geology. He is currently at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the research group on Continental Margins and the Deep Ocean Frontier and the EarthSystems Doctoral School from the Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL). He also holds an Adjunct Position at Monash University. João has published more than 30 papers and edited an AGU monograph entitled “Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards” and an Elsevier special volume on the “200 years of geodynamic modelling”. He was awarded in 2015 the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council, and in 2017 he was awarded the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). João is also passionate about science communications and he regularly collaborate with science magazines and other media.

Table of Contents

1. Franz Lotze and the origin of the idea of Transform Faulting in Central Europe
2. Global characteristics of oceanic transform fault structure and seismicity
3. Topographic and morphologic evidences of deformation at oceanic transform faults: far field and local field stresses
4. Reactivation of Oceanic Fracture Zones in Large Intraplate Earthquakes?
5. Mineralization at oceanic transform faults and fracture zones
6. Seismic Behavior on Oceanic Transform Faults at the East Pacific Rise
7. Structural reorganization of the India-Arabia plate boundary (Owen Fracture Zone, NW Indian Ocean) 2.4 million years ago
8. Tsunamigenic Potential of the Gloria Strike-Slip Fault in the NE Atlantic: A Review
9. Continental transform faults: congruence and incongruence with normal plate kınematics
10. The San Andreas Fault System: Complexities along a Major Transform Fault System and Relation to Earthquake Hazards
11. Spatial and temporal distributions of deformation in strike-slip faults: The Karakoram Fault in the India-Asia collision zone
12. Stretching Transforms – Mediterranean examples from the Betic-Alborán, Tyrrhenian-Calabrian and Aegean-Anatolia regions
13. Strike-slip faulting in the Calabrian accretionary wedge: using analog modeling to test the kinematic boundary conditions of geodynamic models
14. Plio-Quaternary extension and strike-slip tectonics in the Aegean
15. Strike-slip fault systems along the northern Caribbean plate boundary
16. Morphotectonics of the Sea of Marmara: basins and highs on the North Anatolian continental transform plate boundary
17. Tectonic segmentation of the Dead Sea Fault system: a review of geophysical evidence
18. On seismicity and structural style of oceanic transform faults: a field geological perspective from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus

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A thorough assessment of the fascinating and largely unexplored topic of transform faults and fracture zones, bridging the gap between tectonics, seismology, and their societal impacts