eEarth www.electronic-earth.net 1815-381X 1815-3828 1 1 2006 10.5194/ee-1-23-2006 http://www.electronic-earth.net/1/23/2006/ http://www.electronic-earth.net/1/23/2006/ee-1-23-2006.html http://www.electronic-earth.net/1/23/2006/ee-1-23-2006.pdf 23 28 2006-12-20 Earthquake fault rock indicating a coupled lubrication mechanism S. Okamoto shinya@eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp G. Kimura S. Takizawa H. Yamaguchi Department of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan The Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Natsushima 2-15, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka-city, Kanagawa, 237-0061, Japan Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan A pseudotachylyte bounded by a carbonate-matrix implosion breccia was found at a fossilized out-of-sequence thrust in the Shimanto accretionary complex, Japan. 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