Inter-book normal fault-related shear heating in brittle bookshelf faults

This work models shear heat-related temperature rise due to inter-book dip-slip normal faults by a bookshelf mechanism. Such faults are characterized by temporally changing the dip of the inter-book fault planes. Considerable temperature can be produced by such faulting, although the effects of high temperature have not yet been reported around such fault planes. This may mean that fluids flowing through such planes do not allow shear heating to accumulate.