“…These factors include initial sediment composition and grain size distribution [e.g., Lupini et al, 1981;Logan and Rauenzahn, 1987;Spiers, 2000, 2002], normal stress and slip velocity [Marone et al, 1990;Beeler et al, 1996;Mair and Marone, 1999], variations in mineralogy as might be expected with increasing fault plane depth [e.g., Saffer and Marone, 2003], increasing consolidation [Zhang et al, 1993], and cementation.…”