Can the maintenance of overpressured fluids in large strike-slip fault zones explain their apparent weakness?

Geology ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Faulkner ◽  
Ernest H. Rutter
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zones ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Strike Slip Fault

Permeability distribution and scaling in multi-stages carbonate damage zones: Insight from strike-slip fault zones in the Tarim Basin, NW China

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 104208
Author(s):  
Guanghui Wu ◽  
Kuanzhi Zhao ◽  
Haizhou Qu ◽  
Nicola Scarselli ◽  
Yintao Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tarim Basin ◽  
Fault Zones ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Strike Slip Fault ◽  
Nw China ◽  
Permeability Distribution

A Miocene submarine volcano at Low Layton, Jamaica

1982 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Wadge
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
Magnetic Anomalies ◽  
Fault Zones ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Fissure Eruption ◽  
Strike Slip Fault ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Alkaline Basalt ◽  
Submarine Volcano ◽  
The North

SummaryA submarine fissure eruption of Upper Miocene age produced a modest volume of alkaline basalt at Low Layton, on the north coast of Jamaica. The eruption occurred in no more than a few hundred metres of water and produced a series of hyaloclastites, pillow breccias and pillow lavas, massive lavas, and dikes with an ENE en échelon structure. The volcano lies on the trend of one of the island's major E–W strike-slip fault zones: the Dunavale Fault Zone. The K–Ar age of the eruption of 9.5 ± 0.5 Ma. B.P. corresponds to an extension of the Mid-Cayman Rise spreading centre inferred from magnetic anomalies and bathymetry of the Cayman Trough to the north and west of Jamaica. The Low Layton eruption was part of the response of the strike-slip fault systems adjacent to this spreading centre during this brief episode of tectonic readjustment.

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