We report on laboratory experiments designed to illuminate grain‐scale deformation
mechanisms within fault gouge. We vary particle size distribution, grain and surface …

The understanding of fault-slip behaviour in carbonates has an important societal impact
due to the widespread occurrence and propagation of earthquakes in these rocks. Fault rock …

The evolution of stress‐induced damage and the eventual brittle failure are experimentally
analyzed for Mount Scott granite of Oklahoma. We quantify the damage intensity in two …

Fracture surveys were conducted across a broad anticline in southern Israel in order to
investigate the development and geometries of throughgoing fractures in layered carbonate …

Fault damage zones may significantly affect subsurface fluid migration and the development
of unconventional resources. Most analyses of fault damage zones are based on direct field …

Fault damage zones affect the preservation and enrichment of shale gas. Most fault damage
zone studies are based on directly observed outcrops. In this study, we provide an example …

Major seismogenic faults are embedded within narrow zones of inelastic off‐fault
deformation (OFD), where both distributed displacement and modification of rock properties …

We analyze the structure of the Archaean Pretorius fault in TauTona mine, South Africa, as
well as the rupture-zone that recently reactivated it. The analysis is part of the Natural …

Natural earthquake slip profiles have a generic triangular shape which the available rupture
dynamics models fail to reproduce. Long‐term faults are embedded in long‐damaged …

A segment of the Salzach-Ennstal fault zone (Talhof fault, Eastern Alps) shows evidence for
joint nucleation by layer-parallel shear, causing the formation of joint-bounded slices …