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100 1 Yeats, Robert
245 10 Active Faults of the World
264 1 Cambridge :|bCambridge University Press,|c2012
264 4 |c©2012
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505 0 Cover -- Active Faults of the World -- Title -- Copyright
-- Contents -- Preface: Introduction and historical
perspective -- 1: Methods and background -- 1.1
Introduction -- 1.2 Tectonics -- 1.2.1 Introduction --
1.2.2 Plate tectonics -- 1.3 Structural geology -- 1.4
Seismic waves -- 1.4.1 Introduction -- 1.4.2 Orientation
of fault plane based on earthquakes -- 1.4.3 Magnitude
scales -- 1.5 Tectonic geodesy -- 1.5.1 Terrestrial
geodesy -- 1.5.2 Space geodesy -- 1.5.3 InSAR -- 1.5.4 In
situ stress -- 1.6 Earthquake geology at mainshock depths
-- 1.7 Quaternary dating techniques -- 1.7.1 Introduction
-- 1.7.2 Luminescence dating -- 1.7.3 Surface-exposure
dating with cosmogenic nuclides -- 1.8 Tectonic
geomorphology -- 1.8.1 Introduction -- 1.8.2 Scarp
degradation -- 1.8.3 Mountain-front sinuosity -- 1.9
Weathering and soils -- 1.10 Paleoseismology -- 1.10.1
Introduction -- 2: Alaska, Canada, Cascadia, and Eastern
North America -- 2.1 Introduction: the Pacific-North
America plate boundary -- 2.2 Alaska -- 2.2.1 Introduction
-- 2.2.2 Aleutian subduction zone -- 2.2.3 Yakutat
collision zone -- 2.2.4 Alaskan crustal faults -- 2.3
Queen Charlotte-Fairweather transform boundary -- 2.4
Northwest Canada -- 2.5 Cascadia -- 2.5.1 Crustal
earthquakes -- 2.6 Earthquakes in eastern North America --
2.6.1 Introduction -- 2.6.2 New Madrid seismic zone --
2.6.3 Other seismic zones in eastern North America --
2.6.4 Continental earthquakes with surface rupture --
2.6.5 Concluding remarks -- 2.7 Summary -- 2.7.1 Siletzia:
A large igneous province (LIP) in the hanging wall --
2.7.2 Subduction without a W-B zone -- 2.7.3 Bookshelf
tectonics -- 2.7.4 Comparison of Aleutian and Cascadia
subduction zones -- 2.7.5 Subduction, coupling, and arc
volcanoes -- 3: San Andreas system and Basin and Range --
3.1 Introduction
505 8 3.2 San Andreas fault system: introduction and historical
background -- 3.3 Mendocino Transform and Triple Junction
-- 3.4 Northern San Andreas fault -- 3.5 San Francisco Bay
region -- 3.6 Creeping SAF and Parkfield -- 3.7 Southern
San Andreas fault -- 3.8 San Jacinto fault -- 3.9 Other
right-lateral strike-slip faults west of the San Jacinto
fault -- 3.9.1 Summary statement -- 3.10 Left-lateral and
reverse faults west of the SAF -- 3.11 Los Angeles fold-
and-thrust belt -- 3.12 Ventura basin -- 3.13 Southern
Coast Ranges -- 3.14 Baja California and Gulf of
California -- 3.15 Left-lateral faults east of the SAF --
3.16 Eastern boundary faults of the Sierran microplate --
3.16.1 Introduction -- 3.16.2 Eastern California shear
zone -- 3.17 Great Basin -- 3.17.1 Basin and Range normal-
faulted province -- 3.17.2 Other Basin and Range
subprovinces -- 3.17.3 Rio Grande Rift -- 3.17.4 Southern
Basin and Range -- 3.18 The Oroville earthquakes -- 3.19
Summary -- 3.19.1 Importance of studying San Andreas fault
and Basin and Range -- 3.19.2 Birth of a strike-slip fault
-- 3.19.3 Three time frames to establish rates of faulting
-- 3.19.4 Paleoseismology taken to the next level --
3.19.5 Determining offsets on a migrating triple junction
-- 3.19.6 Restraining bends and earthquakes -- 3.19.7
Strain partitioning in Los Angeles -- 4: Caribbean Plate
and Middle America subduction zone -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2
Northern boundary -- 4.3 Lesser Antilles subduction zone -
- 4.4 Northern South America -- 4.5 Central America -- 4.6
Mexican subduction zone -- 4.7 Summary -- 4.7.1 Importance
of strain partitioning -- 4.7.2 Flipped subduction zone or
bivergent crustal wedge? -- 4.7.3 Westward-propagating
earthquakes -- 4.7.4 Flat-slab subduction -- 4.7.5 End of
a plate-boundary fault -- 4.7.6 Paleoseismology of faulted
limestone platforms
505 8 4.7.7 Seismic hazard of the Central American volcanic
depression -- 4.7.8 Seismic hazard to large cities in the
developing world -- 5: South America -- 5.1 Introduction -
- 5.2 North Andean Block -- 5.3 Central Andes -- 5.4
Southern Andes -- 5.5 South America East of the Andes --
5.6 Summary -- 5.6.1 Normally dipping vs. flat-slab
subduction -- 5.6.2 How long have the flat slabs been
flat? -- 5.6.3 Uplift of the Altiplano and Puna plateaus -
- 5.6.4 North-south extension and the effect of high
topography -- 5.6.5 Maximum size of earthquakes at the
Nazca-South America plate boundary -- 6: Africa, Arabia,
and Western Europe -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 East African
Rift Valleys -- 6.3 Ethiopian Rift and the Afar Triangle -
- 6.4 Earthquakes of the African continental shield -- 6.5
The Africa-Eurasia plate boundary west of Gibraltar -- 6.6
Iberia and the Great 1755 Lisbon Earthquake -- 6.7 The
Atlas ranges of North Africa -- 6.8 Italy -- 6.9 Adria and
the Alps -- 6.10 European Rift System and the 1356 Basel,
Switzerland, earthquake -- 6.11 Scandinavia -- 6.12
Scotland -- 6.13 Iceland -- 6.14 Summary -- 6.14.1
Earthquakes and spreading centers -- 6.14.2 Earthquake
hazard to large cities in the Rift Valleys -- 6.14.3
Earthquake hazard of single-event fault scarps -- 6.14.4
Seismotectonics of deglaciation -- 7: Eastern
Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and the Middle East -- 7.1
Introduction -- 7.2 Carpathian Ranges and the Pannonian
Basin -- 7.3 Greece and the Southern Balkans -- 7.3.1
Introduction -- 7.3.2 Hellenic subduction zone -- 7.3.3
South Aegean normal fault region -- 7.3.4 The Gulf of
Corinth graben and other east-west faults -- 7.3.5 Reverse
faults of Epirus and the Ionian Islands -- 7.3.6
Earthquakes in the slow lane: normal faults of Northern
Greece and Bulgaria -- 7.3.7 The North Anatolian fault
(NAF) in the Northern Aegean Sea -- 7.4 Cyprus and Turkey
505 8 7.4.1 Introduction -- 7.4.2 North Anatolian fault -- 7.4.3
East Anatolian fault -- 7.4.4 Other Anatolian faults --
7.5 Dead Sea fault (DSF) -- 7.5.1 Introduction -- 7.5.2
Gulf of Aqaba and Araba Valley -- 7.5.3 The Dead Sea Basin
: tales from the Bible -- 7.5.4 The Dead Sea fault from
Jericho to the Sea of Galilee and Hula Basin -- 7.5.5 The
restraining bend -- 7.5.6 Northern segment in Syria and
Turkey -- 7.5.7 Source of tsunamis on the Levant and
Israel coast -- 7.6 The Caucasus and surrounding areas --
7.7 The Caspian Sea, the Kopeh Dagh, and Iran -- 7.7.1
Turkmenistan and the Kopeh Dagh -- 7.7.2 Iran:
introduction -- 7.7.3 Alborz Mountains -- 7.7.4 Central
Iran -- 7.7.5 Zagros Mountains -- 7.8 Summary -- 7.8.1 The
2000 forecast of the next earthquake to strike İstanbul --
7.8.2 Implications of 60 000 years of paleoseismology on
the Dead Sea fault -- 7.8.3 Are Mediterranean normal
faults listric? -- 7.8.4 Athens, 1999: the unexpected
earthquake -- 7.8.5 Subduction, Mediterranean style --
7.8.6 Desert cities, earthquakes, and water -- 8: India,
the Himalaya, Mainland China, and Central Asia -- 8.1
Introduction -- 8.2 Makran subduction zone -- 8.3 India
Plate -- 8.3.1 Introduction -- 8.3.2 Indian shield --
8.3.3 Western transform boundary: the Chaman fault system
-- 8.3.4 Eastern transform boundary: Indo-Burman Ranges
and the Sagaing fault -- 8.4 Himalaya -- 8.4.1
Introduction -- 8.4.2 Tectonic setting -- 8.4.3
Convergence rates -- 8.4.4 Seismicity -- 8.5 Tibet --
8.5.1 Southern Tibet -- 8.5.2 Faults of eastern Tibetan
Plateau -- 8.6 Earthquakes along the Silk Road -- 8.6.1
Hexi Corridor and Qilian Shan -- 8.7 Grabens around the
Ordos Plateau -- 8.7.1 Introduction -- 8.8 Northeast China
-- 8.8.1 Introduction -- 8.8.2 Tan-Lu fault -- 8.8.3
Faults near Beijing -- 8.9 Central Asia -- 8.9.1 Hindu
Kush, Pamirs, and Karakoram ranges
505 8 8.9.2 Active tectonics of the Celestial Mountains -- 8.9.3
Strike-slip faults in the Altay Ranges -- 8.10 Baikal Rift
-- 8.11 Summary -- 8.11.1 SCR earthquakes -- 8.11.2 Giant
continental subduction-zone earthquakes -- 8.11.3 Large
cities, small countries, and dangerous faults -- 8.11.4
Tsunami hazard in the Bay of Bengal -- 8.11.5 East Asian
superquakes -- 9: Japan and the Western Pacific -- 9.1
Introduction -- 9.2 Tectonic setting -- 9.3 Kuril
subduction zone -- 9.4 Northeast Japan subduction zone and
the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake -- 9.5 Okhotsk-Amurian
plate boundary -- 9.6 Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line
(ISTL) -- 9.7 Southwest Japan: the Nankai subduction zone
-- 9.7.1 Introduction and tectonic expression of the
Nankai plate boundary -- 9.7.2 A thirteen-century record
of Nankai subduction -- 9.7.3 Summary of 1944 Tonankai and
1946 Nankaido earthquakes -- 9.7.4 Izu collision zone and
Sagami Trough -- 9.7.5 Crustal faults of southwest Japan -
- 9.7.6 Ryukyu subduction zone -- 9.8 Taiwan -- 9.8.1
Historical background -- 9.8.2 Tectonic setting -- 9.9
Summary -- 9.9.1 The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake and
Maximum Considered Earthquakes (MCE) -- 9.9.2 Are Nankai
earthquakes periodic? -- 9.9.3 Cusps versus flat-slab
subduction -- 9.9.4 Slip-rate budgets and characteristic
earthquakes -- 10: Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand,
and Pacific Islands -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Sunda
Plate -- 10.2.1 Introduction -- 10.2.2 Red River fault --
10.2.3 Active faults in the Golden Triangle: northern Laos
and Thailand and eastern Myanmar -- 10.2.4 Other faults in
the Sunda Plate -- 10.3 Java, Sumatra, and Andaman
subduction zone -- 10.3.1 Introduction -- 10.3.2 Sumatran
fault and other forearc faults -- 10.3.3 The Sumatran
subduction zone -- 10.3.4 Java subduction zone -- 10.3.5
Timor to Banda Arc -- 10.4 The Philippines, Sulawesi, and
the Moluccas
505 8 10.4.1 Introduction
520 The first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults,
providing an important basis for protecting threatened
cities in the developing world
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