How Strike-slip Faults Evolve (VIDEO)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Structural geologist Michele Cooke and colleagues at UMass Amherst offer the first systematic explorations of such fault evolution. In their new paper, she and her team of students provide experimental results to illustrate the process, with videos, and report on how they re-enact such events in wet clay in the lab.

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