1. Mechanics, Structure and Evolution of Fault Zones

   • Yehuda Ben-Zion
   • Charles Sammis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1533 - 1536

2. Structural Properties and Deformation Patterns of Evolving Strike-slip Faults: Numerical Simulations Incorporating Damage Rheology

   • Yaron Finzi
   • Elizabeth H. Hearn
   • Vladimir Lyakhovsky

   OriginalPaper 30 June 2009 Pages: 1537 - 1573

3. Segmentation along Strike-Slip Faults Revisited

   • Ghislain de Joussineau
   • Atilla Aydin

   OriginalPaper 29 July 2009 Pages: 1575 - 1594

4. Influence of Outcrop Scale Fractures on the Effective Stiffness of Fault Damage Zone Rocks

   • W. Ashley Griffith
   • Pablo F. Sanz
   • David D. Pollard

   OriginalPaper 27 June 2009 Pages: 1595 - 1627

5. Effects of Off-fault Damage on Earthquake Rupture Propagation: Experimental Studies

   • Charles G. Sammis
   • Ares J. Rosakis
   • Harsha S. Bhat

   OriginalPaper 29 July 2009 Pages: 1629 - 1648

6. Geometry of the Nojima Fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan – I. A Simple Damage Structure Inferred from Borehole Core Permeability

   • David A. Lockner
   • Hidemi Tanaka
   • Hisanobu Naka

   OriginalPaper 27 June 2009 Pages: 1649 - 1667

7. Geometry of the Nojima Fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan – II. Microstructures and their Implications for Permeability and Strength

   • Diane E. Moore
   • David A. Lockner
   • Kentaro Omura

   OriginalPaper 30 June 2009 Pages: 1669 - 1691

8. The Energetics of Cataclasis Based on Breakage Mechanics

   • Giang D. Nguyen
   • Itai Einav

   OriginalPaper 30 June 2009 Pages: 1693 - 1724

9. Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Pulverized Tejon Lookout Granite Adjacent to the San Andreas and Garlock Faults: Implications for Earthquake Physics

   • Thomas Rockwell
   • Matthew Sisk
   • Yehuda Ben-Zion

   OriginalPaper 30 June 2009 Pages: 1725 - 1746

10. Characterization of Damage in Sandstones along the Mojave Section of the San Andreas Fault: Implications for the Shallow Extent of Damage Generation

    • Ory Dor
    • Judith S. Chester
    • Thomas K. Rockwell

    OriginalPaper 30 June 2009 Pages: 1747 - 1773

11. Constructing Constitutive Relationships for Seismic and Aseismic Fault Slip

    • N. M. Beeler

    OriginalPaper 29 July 2009 Pages: 1775 - 1798

12. Nonplanar Faults: Mechanics of Slip and Off-fault Damage

    • James H. Dieterich
    • Deborah Elaine Smith

    OriginalPaper 01 August 2009 Pages: 1799 - 1815

13. Characterization of Fault Roughness at Various Scales: Implications of Three-Dimensional High Resolution Topography Measurements

    • Thibault Candela
    • François Renard
    • Christophe Voisin

    OriginalPaper 29 June 2009 Pages: 1817 - 1851

14. Spatio-temporal Slip, and Stress Level on the Faults within the Western Foothills of Taiwan: Implications for Fault Frictional Properties

    • Ya-Ju Hsu
    • Jean-Philippe Avouac
    • Jochen Woessner

    OriginalPaper 29 July 2009 Pages: 1853 - 1884

15. Landslides, Ice Quakes, Earthquakes: A Thermodynamic Approach to Surface Instabilities

    • Klaus Regenauer-Lieb
    • David A. Yuen
    • Florian Fusseis

    OriginalPaper 27 June 2009 Pages: 1885 - 1908