Geology of the earthquake source: an introduction / Å. Fagereng & V.G. Toy -- Fault-zone geology: lessons from drilling through the Nojima and Chelungpu faults / A.-M. Boullier -- Deep rock damage in the San Andreas Fault revealed by P- and S-type fault-zone-guided waves / W.L. Ellsworth & P.E. Malin -- Geology of the seismogenic subduction thrust interface / Å. Fagereng -- Textural record of the seismic cycle: strain-rate variation in an ancient subduction thrust / C.D. Rowe, F. Meneghini & J.C. Moore -- The microstructural character and mechanical significance of fault rocks associated with a continental low-angle normal fault: the Zuccale Fault, Elba Island, Italy / S.A.F. Smith, R.E. Holdsworth, C. Collettini & M.A. Pearce -- Diverse habitats of pseudotachylytes in the Alpine Fault Zone and relationships to current seismicity / V.G. Toy, S. Ritchie & R.H. Sibson -- Seismogenic structure of a crystalline thrust fault: fabric anisotropy and coeval pseudotachylyte - mylonitic pseudotachylyte in the Grizzly Creek Zone, Colorado / J.L. Allen & C.A. Shaw -- Microstructure and petrology of a Calabrian garnet-bearing pseudotachylyte - a link to lower-crustal seismicity / U. Altenberger, G. Prosser, M. Ruggiero & C. Günter -- Petrological evidence for co-seismic slip in extending middle-lower continental crust: Heier's zone of pseudotachylyte, north Norway / D.P. Moecher & M.G. Steltenpohl -- Mid-crustal controls on episodic stress-field rotation around major reverse, normal and strike-slip faults / J.-A. Nüchter & S. Ellis -- Evolution of fluid chemistry and fluid-flow pathways during folding and faulting: an example from Taemas, NSW, Australia / S.L.L. Barker & S.F. Cox -- Formation of fault-related calcite precipitates and their implications for dating fault activity in the East Anatolian and Dead Sear fault zones / P. Nuriel, G. Rosenbaum, T.L. Uysal, J. Zhao, S.D. Golding, R. Weinberger, V. Karabacak & Y. Avni -- Controls on fluid flow in transpressive orogens, Taiwan and New Zealand / P. Upton, D. Craw, B. Yu, & Y.-G. Chen -- Reproduction of thermal pressurization and fluidization of clay-rich fault gouges by high-velocity friction experiments and implications for seismic slip in natural faults / K. Ujiie, A. Tsutsumi, & J. Kameda -- New faults v. fault reactivation: implications for fault cohesion, fluid flow and copper mineralization, Mount Gordon Fault Zone, Mount Isa District, Australia / G.S. Northje, N.H.S. Oliver, T.G. Blenkinsop, D.L. Keys, J.G. McLellan & S. Oxenburgh -- First-order splay faults: dip-slip examples / C.H. Scholz -- The scope of earthquake geology / R. H. Sibson