AGU session on Investigations of Earthquake Rupture and Aseismic Fault Slip

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit a contributed abstract to the 2007 Fall AGU Meeting, session S15: "Insights From Combined Laboratory and Theoretical Investigations of Earthquake Rupture and Aseismic Fault Slip". The meeting will be held on 10-14 December, 2007 in San Francisco, CA. More information can be found at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07. Abstract submissions are due 6 September 2007.

We look forward to seeing you at AGU.

Best wishes,
Yuri Fialko, Nadia Lapusta, and Ares Rosakis

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S15: "Insights From Combined Laboratory and Theoretical Investigations of Earthquake Rupture and Aseismic Fault Slip"

Description: Slip on faults involves a range of complex and potentially interdependent phenomena. Fault resistance to sliding can be influenced by a number of mechanisms, including rate and state effects, flash heating, pore pressure evolution, dissimilar material properties, local non-planarity of slip interfaces, and others. Earthquake dynamics involves different rupture patterns, interaction with fault geometry and, potentially, branching and supershear propagation. In the interseismic period, observations show a rich array of behaviors, from aseismic slip transients to episodic tremors. Laboratory experiments provide crucial insights for our understanding of these phenomena, either directly or though a combination of experimental observations and theoretical modeling. Laboratory experiments can also be used to validate numerical models. Papers are invited on all aspects of relevant laboratory experiments, modeling of experimental results, and incorporation of these results into theories or numerical simulations of seismic and aseismic fault behavior.