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Fault rocks and fault mechanisms
- R. Sibson
- Geology
- Journal of the Geological Society
- 1 March 1977
Physical factors likely to affect the genesis of the various fault rocks—frictional properties, temperature, effective stress normal to the fault and differential stress—are examined in relation to… Expand
Generation of Pseudotachylyte by Ancient Seismic Faulting
- R. Sibson
- Geology
- 1 December 1975
Summary
Pseudotachylyte occurs as vein material infilling highly brittle shear and extensional fractures developed along the western margin of the late Caledonian, Outer Hebrides Thrust zone in NW… Expand
A note on fault reactivation
- R. Sibson
- Geology
- 1985
Reactivation of existing faults whose normal lies in the σ1′σ3′ plane of a stress field with effective principal compressive stresses σ1′ >σ2′ >σ3′ is considered for the simplest frictional failure… Expand
Structural permeability of fluid-driven fault-fracture meshes
- R. Sibson
- Geology
- 1 August 1996
Fluid redistribution in the crust is influenced by hydraulic gradient, by existing permeability anisotropy arising from bedding and other forms of layering, and by structural permeability developed… Expand
Thickness of the Seismic Slip Zone
- R. Sibson
- Geology
- 1 June 2003
This article reviews geologic and other evidence constraining the thickness of the principal slip zone (PSZ) that accommodates the bulk of coseismic shear displacement during an individual rupture… Expand
High-angle reverse faults, fluid-pressure cycling, and mesothermal gold-quartz deposits
- R. Sibson, F. Robert, K. Poulsen
- Geology
- 1 June 1988
Many mesothermal gold-quartz deposits are localized along high-angle reverse or reverse-oblique shear zones within greenstone belt terrains. Characteristically, these fault-hosted vein deposits… Expand
Brecciation processes in fault zones: Inferences from earthquake rupturing
- R. Sibson
- Geology
- 1986
Surface-rupture patterns and aftershock distributions accompanying moderate to large shallow earthquakes reveal a residual brittle infrastructure for established crustal fault zones, the complexity… Expand
Structural controls on hydrothermal flow in a segmented rift system, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
- J. Rowland, R. Sibson
- Geology
- 1 November 2004
Earthquake faulting as a structural process
- R. Sibson
- Geology
- 1989
Abstract Structural geology is concerned with the history of movement in the Earth's crust and the processes by which displacements occur. In the upper one third to one half of deforming continental… Expand
Conditions for fault-valve behaviour
- R. Sibson
- Geology
- Geological Society, London, Special Publications
- 1990
Abstract Evidence for fluid pressures well in excess of hydrostatic during crustal deformation is provided by direct measurements of pressure levels in active tectonic regions and by hydrothermal… Expand