Add mountains and shake: plate boundary fault and earthquake patterns

该项目旨在确定在斜辐合（跨震）板块边界环境中，将地形、地震震动和火山活动与发震断层网的演化联系起来的基本物理过程。我们将结合详细的野外和遥感构造分析以及先进的实验室模拟和数值实验来评估：1)强烈地震的爆发如何干扰断裂带随时间的演化；2)地形和重力荷载对断层相互作用和地震发生的贡献；3)断层网发育、火山中心空间分布、地震震动与矿床之间的反馈。

This project aims to determine the fundamental physical processes that link topography, seismic shaking and volcanism to the evolution of seismogenic fault networks in obliquely convergent (transpressional) plate boundary settings. We will combine detailed field and remote sensing-based structural analyses in transpressional mountain belts with advanced laboratory analogue and numerical experiments to evaluate: 1) how bursts of strong seismic shaking perturb fault zone evolution through time; 2) the contribution of topography and gravitation loading to fault interactions and earthquake generation; and 3) feedbacks between fault network development, the spatial distribution of volcanic centres, seismic shaking and ore deposits.