UMass Geomechanics

Presentations at the 2012 Northeast GSA meeting

• Herbert, Justin and Michele L. Cooke, Spatial variations in slip along complex fault surfaces may account for discrepancies between permanent GPS derived and geologic slip rates (Poster)
• Herbert, Justin and Michele L. Cooke, The work of fault generation in the laboratory (Oral)
• Fahmi, Mohammed and Michele L. Cooke, Fractures of the Dammam Dome carbonate outcrops: their characterization, evolution and potential as reservoir analogues. (Oral - first time presenter)
• Buchanan, Steve W. and Michele L. Cooke, Measuring the evolution of faults at restraining bends in Claybox experiments (Poster - first time presenter)
• Fattaruso, Laura and Michele L. Cooke, Uplift patterns associated with the Coachella Valley Segment of the San Andreas Fault (Poster - first time presenter)
• Bridges, Peter and Michele L. Cooke, Numerical analysis of fault evolution of restraining bends (Poster - first time presenter)

New Paper in Geophysical Research Letters

Cooke, Michele L and Nicholas J. van der Elst, 2012. Rheologic testing of wet kaolin reveals frictional and bi-viscous behavior typical of crustal materials, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, L01308, doi:10.1029/2011GL050186.

Presentations at the 2011 AGU meeting

• T32C-07: M.L. Cooke & H. M. Savage, How does damage affect rupture propagation across a fault stepover?
• ED34A-01: M. L. Cooke, Hands-on earth science with students at schools for the Deaf
• T51C-2343: J. W. Herbert, M. L. Cooke & B. Maillot, The Work of Fault Generation in the Laboratory.

Invited presentation at the 2011 GSA meeting

• M.L. Cooke, There is no such thing as a free fault,(GSA presentation 76-7.) Mario Del Castello, Justin Herbert and Bertrand Maillot (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise) contributed to this presentation.

New paper in JGR Planets

Cooke, Michele, Fariha Islam and George E. McGill, 2011. Basement Controls on the Scale of Giant Polygons in Utopia Planitia, Journal of Geophysical Research Planet, 116, E09003, doi:10.1029/2011JE003812.

Presentations at the 2011 SCEC meeting

• J.W. Herbert and M.L. Cooke, "Sensitivity of the Southern San Andreas Fault System to Tectonic Boundary Conditions" (2011 SCEC Annual Meeting poster B-141)
• H.M. Savage and M.L. Cooke, "How does damage affect rupture propagation across a fault stepover? " (2011 SCEC Annual Meeting poster A-074)
• Mi L Cooke, Mechanical Investigations of 3D Fault Complexity in Southern California (2011 SCEC Annual Meeting presentation)

New paper in Journal of Geophysical Research

Cooke, M. L., and L. C. Dair (2011), Simulating the recent evolution of the southern big bend of the San Andreas fault, Southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B04405, doi:10.1029/2010JB007835.