Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones

Transform Plate Boundaries and Fault Zones bridges the gap between plate tectonic theory and geodynamics, offering an assessment of the state-of-the-art, pending questions, and future directions in the study of transform plate boundaries and fault zones. The book is divided into two parts, first relating the main concepts of transform faults and fracture zones, presenting the current state of knowledge and covering terminology and nomenclature, and then reviewing worldwide examples of transform structures and fracture zones. Each chapter follows a consistent format including coverage of the tectonic origin of each structure; a brief description of its evolution; present-day observations (e.g. structural geology, GPS, rheology); diversity of seismic activity; and related seismic hazards.

With its multidisciplinary approach and thorough coverage of current research in plate tectonics, Transform Plate Boundaries and Fault Zones is a timely reference for a variety of researchers, including geophysicists, seismologists, structural geologists, and others working in related fields such as exploration geophysics and natural hazards.

Includes a variety of case studies and examples of transform structures and fracture zones, putting the information into a broader contextAddresses innovative and provocative ideas about the activity of fracture zones in a multidisciplinary and consistent wayReviews basic (but up-to-date) concepts related to plate tectonics as well as more specialized research

1. Franz Lotze and the origin of the idea of Transform Faulting in Central Europe 2. Global characteristics of oceanic transform fault structure and seismicity 3. Topographic and morphologic evidences of deformation at oceanic transform faults: far field and local field stresses 4. Reactivation of Oceanic Fracture Zones in Large Intraplate Earthquakes? 5. Mineralization at oceanic transform faults and fracture zones 6. Seismic Behavior on Oceanic Transform Faults at the East Pacific Rise 7. Structural reorganization of the India-Arabia plate boundary (Owen Fracture Zone, NW Indian Ocean) 2.4 million years ago 8. Tsunamigenic Potential of the Gloria Strike-Slip Fault in the NE Atlantic: A Review 9. Continental transform faults: congruence and incongruence with normal plate kınematics 10. The San Andreas Fault System: Complexities along a Major Transform Fault System and Relation to Earthquake Hazards 11. Spatial and temporal distributions of deformation in strike-slip faults: The Karakoram Fault in the India-Asia collision zone 12. Stretching Transforms – Mediterranean examples from the Betic-Alborán, Tyrrhenian-Calabrian and Aegean-Anatolia regions 13. Strike-slip faulting in the Calabrian accretionary wedge: using analog modeling to test the kinematic boundary conditions of geodynamic models 14. Plio-Quaternary extension and strike-slip tectonics in the Aegean 15. Strike-slip fault systems along the northern Caribbean plate boundary 16. Morphotectonics of the Sea of Marmara: basins and highs on the North Anatolian continental transform plate boundary 17. Tectonic segmentation of the Dead Sea Fault system: a review of geophysical evidence 18. On seismicity and structural style of oceanic transform faults: a field geological perspective from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus