Cooke and recent alums publish new paper in JSG on formation of strike-slip faults

A frame from an animation of the evolution of shear strain in a claybox experiment. A red line, denoting a zone of high strain, horizontally bisects a white background, with blue, lightning-like lines branching off of it sub-parallel to the red line.

Dr. Michele Cooke and recent graduates Alex Hatem and Kevin Toeneboehn recently published a paper in the Journal of Structural Geology on the formation and growth of strike slip faults and their relation to earthquakes.  More information can be found here.

The paper can be found here.