Kinematic Evolution and Mechanisms of Strike-Slip Faulting in the Solar System: Insight from Analogue Experiments

• Main Author: Curren, Ivy Savannah
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Geology; Planetology; Analogue; Europa; Phobos; South Iceland Seismic Zone; Strike-slip faults; Tidal deformation; Venus; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/443613v6

Identifying the ways in which faults initiate and propagate in disparate tectonic environments is fundamental for understanding regional and global deformation on rocky and icy bodies throughout the solar system. Furthermore, the kinematics and mechanisms of faulting provide a framework for understa...