On 10/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert J. Bradbury</b> <<a href="mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.com">bradbury@aeiveos.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One also has to differentiate between "slip" faults and<br>"break" faults. Very different and not always clearly<br>separate. I would suggest that the lubricant approach<br>would work with slip faults. It would not work with break
<br>faults. In (a) you are dealing with plates slipping past<br>each other; in (b) you are dealing with plates running into<br>each other such that the only way around is to snap one<br>of the plates. Very distinct phenomena.
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Suppose you stuffed a hundred tons of dynamite down a borehole in the
middle of a break fault and set it off, would that trigger the
earthquake early?<br>
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- Russell<br>
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