1. Introduction

   • Ren Wang
   • Keiiti Aki

   EditorialNotes Pages: 399 - 401

2. Mechanical problems in geodynamics and work done in China

   • Ren Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 423

3. A review on the lithospheric structures in the Tibetan Plateau and constraints for dynamics

   • Rongsheng Zeng
   • Zhifeng Ding
   • Qingju Wu

   ReviewPaper Pages: 425 - 443

4. Free oscillations of a laterally heterogenous and anelastic earth

   • Seiji Tsuboi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 457

5. The Earth's palaeorotation, postglacial rebound and lower mantle viscosity from analysis of ancient Chinese eclipse records

   • Kevin D. Pang
   • Kevin Yau
   • Hung-Hsiang Chou

   OriginalPaper Pages: 459 - 485

6. A preliminary study of the effects of some flow parameters in the generation of poloidal and toroidal energies within a 3-D spherical thermal-convective system with variable viscosity

   • Albert T. Hsui
   • Woo-Sun Yang
   • John R. Baumgardner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 487 - 503

7. On the rifting dynamics of plate divergence and magma accumulation at oceanic ridge axes

   • Wolf R. Jacoby
   • Bettie Higgs

   OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 521

8. 3-D spherical shell modeling of mantle flow and its implication for global tectogenesis

   • Xunying Sun
   • Lijie Han

   OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 536

9. Coupling of tectonic loading and earthquake fault slips at subduction zones

   • Kelin Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 537 - 559

10. Oblique subduction of a Newtonian fluid slab

    • Zheng-Kang Shen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 561 - 577

11. On the dynamics of extensional basin

    • Rong-Sheng Zeng
    • Chun-yong Wang
    • Dong-ning Zhang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 579 - 603

12. Rheological information from geological structures

    • Peter J. Hudleston
    • Labao Lan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 605 - 620

13. A method of estimating the stress exponent in the flow law for rocks using fold shape

    • Labao Lan
    • Peter J. Hudleston

    OriginalPaper Pages: 621 - 635

14. The effect of fault-bend folding on seismic velocity in the marginal ridge of accretionary prisms

    • Yongen Cai
    • Chi-yuen Wang
    • Guy R. Cochrane

    OriginalPaper Pages: 637 - 646

15. Interrelation between fault zone structures and earthquake processes

    • Keiiti Aki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 647 - 676

16. Analysis of induced seismicity for stress field determination and pore pressure mapping

    • F. H. Cornet
    • Yin Jianmin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 677 - 700

17. A new approach to earthquake prediction: The Load/Unload Response Ratio (LURR) theory

    • Xiang-Chu Yin
    • Xue-zhong Chen
    • Can Yin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 701 - 715

18. An earthquake instability model based on faults containing high fluid-pressure compartments

    • David A. Lockner
    • James D. Byerlee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 717 - 745

19. Slip-weakening constitutive relation and the structure in the vicinity of a shear crack tip

    • Changrong He

    OriginalPaper Pages: 747 - 757

20. Development of subcracks betweenen echelon fractures in rock plates

    • Yonghong Zhao
    • Haihua Liang
    • Ren Wang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 759 - 773

21. In situ stress state in Mainland China

    • Fangquan Li

    OriginalPaper Pages: 775 - 787