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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of symbols | |
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| Brittle fracture of rock | |
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| Theoretical concepts | |
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| Historical | |
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| Griffith theory | |
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| Fracture mechanics | |
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| Crack models | |
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| Macroscopic fracture criteria | |
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| Experimental studies of rock strength | |
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| Macroscopic strength | |
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| Fracture energies | |
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| Discussion of fracture criteria in the light of experimental results | |
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| Effect of scale on strength | |
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| Pore fluid effects on fracture | |
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| Laws of effective stress | |
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| Environmental effects on strength | |
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| The brittle-plastic transition | |
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| General principles | |
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| The transition induced by pressure | |
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| The transition induced by temperature | |
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| Extrapolation to geological conditions | |
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| Rock friction | |
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| Theoretical concepts | |
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| Historical | |
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| The adhesion theory of friction | |
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| Elastic contact theory of friction | |
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| Other frictional interactions | |
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| Experimental observations of friction | |
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| General observations | |
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| Effects of other variables on friction | |
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| Wear | |
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| Stick slip and stable sliding | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rate effects on friction: the rate and state variable friction laws | |
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| Frictional stability regimes | |
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| Dynamics of stick slip | |
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| Friction under geological conditions | |
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| Mechanics of faulting | |
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| Mechanical framework | |
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| Anderson's theory of faulting | |
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| Hubbert-Rubey theory of overthrust faulting | |
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| Stress in the crust, fault reactivation, and friction | |
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| The formation and growth of faults | |
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| The problem of fault formation | |
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| Growth and development of faults | |
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| Fault interactions and fault populations | |
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| Fault rocks and structures | |
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| Fault rocks and deformation mechanisms | |
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| Fabrics and surfaces | |
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| Strength and rheology of faults | |
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| A synoptic shear zone model | |
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| Deep ductile shear zones: the downward continuation of faults | |
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| Thermomechanical effects of faulting | |
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| The debate on the strength of crustal fault zones | |
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| Fault morphology and mechanical effects of heterogeneity | |
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| Fault topography and morphology | |
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| Mechanical effects of fault irregularities | |
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| Mechanics of earthquakes | |
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| Historical development | |
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| Theoretical background | |
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| The dynamic energy balance | |
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| Dynamic shear crack propagation | |
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| Simple applications to earthquake rupture | |
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| Earthquake phenomenology | |
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| Quantification of earthquakes | |
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| Earthquake scaling relations | |
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| Observations of earthquakes | |
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| Case studies | |
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| Earthquake sequences | |
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| Compound earthquakes: Clustering and migration | |
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| Mechanics of earthquake interactions | |
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| Coulomb stress loading | |
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| Mechanisms for the time delay | |
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| The seismic cycle | |
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| Historical | |
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| The crustal deformation cycle | |
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| Geodetic observations of strain accumulation | |
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| Models of strain accumulation | |
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| Postseismic phenomena | |
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| The earthquake cycle | |
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| Earthquake recurrence | |
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| Geological observations of recurrence times | |
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| Recurrence estimation with insufficient data | |
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| Seismicity changes during the loading cycle | |
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| The question of earthquake periodicity | |
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| Earthquake recurrence models | |
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| Seismotectonics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Seismotectonic analysis | |
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| Qualitative analysis | |
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| Quantitative analysis | |
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| Comparative seismotectonics | |
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| Subduction zone seismicity | |
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| Oceanic earthquakes | |
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| Continental extensional regimes | |
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| Intraplate earthquakes | |
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| Mechanism of deep earthquakes | |
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| Slow and tsunamigenic earthquakes | |
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| The relative role of seismic and aseismic faulting | |
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| Aseismic slip | |
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| Seismic coupling of subduction zones | |
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| Induced seismicity | |
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| Some examples | |
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| Mechanisms of reservoir-induced seismicity | |
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| Mining-induced seismicity | |
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| Induced seismicity as a stress gauge | |
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| Earthquake prediction and hazard analysis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical | |
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| Types of earthquake prediction | |
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| Is earthquake prediction possible? | |
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| Precursory phenomena | |
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| Preinstrumental observations | |
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| Intermediate-term precursors | |
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| Short-term precursors | |
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| Mechanisms of precursory phenomena | |
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| Nucleation models | |
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| Dilatancy models | |
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| Lithospheric loading models | |
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| Critical point theory | |
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| Comparison of models and observations | |
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| Earthquake prediction experiments | |
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| Earthquake hazard analysis | |
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| Traditional methods | |
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| Long-term hazard analysis | |
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| Analysis of instantaneous hazard | |
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| Future prospects and problems | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |