Abstract The North Atlantic, extending from the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone to the north
Norway-Greenland-Svalbard margins, is regarded as both a classic case of structural …

Deformation bands are common subseismic structures in porous sandstones that vary with
respect to deformation mechanisms, geometries and distribution. The amount of cataclasis …

Increased interest in the two-and three-dimensional geometries and development of faults
and other types of fractures in rock has led to an increasingly bewildering terminology. Here …

We present stress concentration factors at the edges of 3D voids in uniaxial compression.
Variations in these stress concentration factors due to Poisson's ratio of the host material …

We present a comparative study of crack damage evolution in dry sandstone under both
conventional (σ1> σ2= σ3), and true triaxial (σ1> σ2> σ3) stress conditions using results from …

Our field studies emphasizing brittle shear P-and Y-planes along the margins of the Barmer
basin (Rajasthan, India) support its two-phase (NW-SE, followed by NE-SW) extension …

Catastrophic failure of brittle rocks is important in managing risk associated with system‐
sized material failure. Such failure is caused by nucleation, growth, and coalescence of …

Multiphase rifts tend to produce fault populations that evolve by the formation of new faults
and reactivation of earlier faults. The resulting fault patterns tend to be complex and difficult …

We describe a fast geomechanically-based paleostress inversion technique that uses
observed fracture data to constrain stress through multiple simulations. The method …

Intersecting discontinuities are often encountered in rock engineering and sometimes
associated with damaging geohazards. Our understanding of intersecting discontinuities …