Michele Cooke, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Michele Cooke, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Geologists have been uncertain about the factors that govern how new faults grow, Cooke says. In recent years she has offered the first systematic explorations of such fault evolution, providing experimental results to illustrate the process, with videos.

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