Strike-Slip Tectonics: Oceanic Transform Faults to Continental Plate Boundaries

Major Fault Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-119-77395-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Geophysical Monograph Series

Perspectives on the tectonics of major strike-slip fault zones

Strike-slip faults, steeply dipping structures marked by dominantly horizontal motion, occur in diverse setting in orogenic belts and define many of the world’s transform plate boundaries. Understanding their behavior offers insight into surface and subsurface deformation, the formation of mountain belts and sedimentary basins, and seismic hazards.

Strike-Slip Tectonics: Major Fault Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia presents a state-of-the-art perspective on the processes that lead to major earthquakes and the changing landscapes along strike-slip fault zones across this tectonically active region.

Volume highlights include: - Studies of plate movements and kinematic and dynamic analysis along transform faults
- Case studies from the Anatolian and Asia-Pacific regions and the Himalayan system

- Advances in methods and techniques for seismic mapping and simulation
- Applications for seismic hazard assessments, urban planning, policymaking, and research in academia and industry

This book is one of a set of three in the collection Tectonic Processes: A Global View.

The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Çemen, Ibrahim

Catlos, Elizabeth J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Petrologie, Mineralogie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Vulkanologie, Seismologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Tektonik, Strukturgeologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

List of Contributors  vii

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments  xv

1 Strike-Slip Tectonics: Introduction to Major Fault Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia

Ibrahim Çemen and Elizabeth J Catlos  1

Part I: Tectonic Processes Along Major Strike-Slip Fault  Zones  25

2 Characterizing the Neotectonic Behavior of the Central Sector of the East Anatolian Fault System: Implications for Basin Formation, Slip Rate, and Seismicity (Southeastern Turkey)

M. S¸efik Imamoglu, Yasar Ergun Gökten, and Gilbert Kelling 27

3 Tectonic Analyses of the Major Strike-Slip Faults Associated with South-Central Anatolian Earthquakes Yücel Yilmaz, Erdinç Yigitbas, and Ibrahim Çemen 49

4 Spatiotemporal Variations in Earthquake Size Distribution and Density Patterns Along the Southern Dead Sea Transform: Mechanical and Tectonic Implications

Matty Sharon, Ittai Kurzon, Shmuel Marco, Amotz Agnon, and Zvi Ben-Avraham  69

5 Strike-Slip Motion in the Himalayas: Implications for Collisional Dynamics

Elizabeth J. Catlos, Peter J. Haproff, Chandra Shekhar Dubey, and Gonmei Zenus Piuthaimei  105

6 Microplates Related to Diverse Strike-Slip/Transform Faults in the Asia–Pacific Region

Sanzhong Li, Yanhui Suo, Lijun Liu, Guangzeng Wang, Pengcheng Wang, Lin Liu, Xianzhi Cao, Jie Zhou, Boran Liu, Jie Liu, Qingbin Guan, Shujuan Zhao, Yuhua Wang, Liangliang Wang, Guozheng Sun,

Hao Dong, Liming Dai, Yongjiang Liu, Yang Liu, Suhua Jiang, and Ian Somerville 147

Part II: Seismicity Along Major Strike-Slip Fault Zones 211

7 Thermal Structure and Rigidity of the Aegean–Anatolian Region: Implications for Seismicity Rezene Mahatsente and Ibrahim Çemen 13

8 The North Anatolian Fault: An Example of the Regularity of “Irregular” Seismic Behavior of Continental Strike-Slip Faults

Cengiz Zabci, Erhan Altunel, and H. Serdar Akyüz  227

9 Strike-Slip Networks in a Compressional Belt: Seismotectonic Implications from the Sikkim Himalayas, Northeastern India

Elizabeth J. Catlos and Peter Haproff  285

10 Contextualizing the Herat Fault of Afghanistan in Central Asian Tectonics: Insights from the 2023 Herat Quadruplet Earthquake Sequence

Hamid Sana, Robert Zinke, Eric Kirby, and Eric Fielding 321

Part III: Dynamics and Physics-Based Simulations of Earthquakes Along Strike-Slip Fault Zones  329

11 Fault Slip and Coulomb Stress Model of the 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6 Kahramanmaras Earthquake Doublet, Turkey

Sui Tung, Christian Sippl, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Tuncay Taymaz, Timothy Masterlark, Irina Medved, and Seok-Jun Kang 331

12 Tectonic and Dynamic Controls in the 2023 Kahramanmaras and Ekinozu, Turkey, Earthquake Sequence, Illuminated with Physics-Based Simulations

Ryosuke Ando, Ali Pinar, Dogan Kalafat, Haluk Ozener, Esref Yalcinkaya, and Yojiro Yamamoto  349
Index 000

Über Autor(innen)

Ibrahim Çemen, The University of Alabama, USA

Elizabeth J. Catlos, The University of Texas at Austin, USA