Increased interest in the two- and three-dimensional geometries and development of faults and other types of fractures in rock has led to an increasingly bewildering terminology. Here we give definitions for the geometric, topological, kinematic and mechanical relationships between geological faults...

The Maghreb region (from Tunisia to Gibraltar) is a key area in the western Mediterranean to study the active tectonics and stress pattern across the Africa-Eurasia convergent plate boundary. In the present study, we compile comprehensive data set of well-constrained crustal stress indicators (from ...

In October 2013 and July–August 2018, two extensive earthquake swarms shook the northern reaches of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Former studies explored the swarms, resulting in discrepant depths and mechanisms. Here, we attempt to settle the discrepant interpretations using alternative seismolog...

The joint tectonic interaction to the Pearl River Mouth Basin (PRMB) between the collision of the Indo-Australia and Eurasian plates and the subduction of the Pacific Plate (the Philippine Sea Plate) made the present-day complex structures. The basement of the northern South China Sea (SCS) margin h...

Structural superimposition has been broadly observed in petroliferous basins worldwide. Previous studies also realized the important control of pre-existing faults on subsequent fault systems developed in sedimentary covers. However, due to the high level of complexity in structural superimposition,...