Fault zones and fault systems have a key role in the development of the Earth's crust. They
control the mechanics and fluid flow properties of the crust, and the architecture of …

Scaling in fracture systems has become an active field of research in the last 25 years
motivated by practical applications in hazardous waste disposal, hydrocarbon reservoir …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

Microfractures are small, high-aspect-ratio cracks in rock that result from application of
differential stresses. Although the term has been used to refer to larger features in the …

Triaxial compression experiments were conducted to investigate the inelastic and failure
behavior of six sandstones with porosities ranging from 15% to 35%. A broad range of …

Damage surrounding the core of faults is represented by deformation on a range of scales
from microfracturing of the rock matrix to macroscopic fracture networks. The spatial …

Hydrothermal outflow occurs most commonly at the terminations of individual faults and
where multiple faults interact. These areas of fault propagation and interaction are sites of …

We investigate the development of fracture distributions as a function of displacement to
determine whether damage around small and large faults is governed by the same process …

Slip on unfavourably oriented faults with respect to a remotely applied stress is well
documented and implies that faults such as the San Andreas fault and low-angle normal …

We report progress made in the last few years on the general problem of the mechanism of
fault growth and the scaling laws that result. Results are now conclusive that fault growth is a …