Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones [Paperback]

Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones bridges the gap between the classic plate tectonic theory and new emerging ideas, offering an assessment of the state-of-the-art, pending questions, and future directions in the study of transform plate boundaries and fracture zones. The book includes a number of case studies and reviews on both oceanic and continental tectonic settings.

Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones is a timely reference for a variety of researchers, including geophysicists, seismologists, structural geologists and tectonicists, as well as specialists in exploration geophysics and natural hazards. This book can also be used as an up-to-date reference at universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

• Reviews ideas and concepts about transform plate boundaries and fracture zones
• Includes a variety of case studies on both oceanic and continental settings
• Addresses innovative and provocative ideas about the activity of fracture zones and transform faults and their impacts to the human society

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 withl£*