Exhumed fault zones offer insights into deformation processes associated with earthquakes
in unparalleled spatial resolution; however it can be difficult to differentiate seismic slip from …

Shatter cones are a fracture phenomenon that is exclusively associated with shock
metamorphism and has also been produced in the laboratory in several shock experiments …

Observations of natural fracture dimensions have sparked a continuing debate as to the
nature of the fundamental relationship between fracture aperture (maximum opening) and …

Abstract The Zagros Basin in southwestern Iran is a significant source of coal, with
numerous coal mines operating in the region. Ensuring the stability of coal mines is crucial …

Roof fall in underground coal mines is a time-dependent process involving various
behaviors such as intact and failed rock, strain-softening, and strength degradation. Current …

Recent experimental observations of intersonic shear rupture events that occur in a variety
of material systems have rekindled interest in the intersonic failure phenomenon. Since the …

Recent widespread seismicity in Oklahoma is attributed to the reactivation of pre-existing,
critically stressed and seismically unstable faults due to decades of wastewater injection …

Natural faults are often heterogeneous with spatially variable cohesion caused by healing
processes. Using rock bridges as laboratory analogs, we investigate how cohesion‐healed …

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 …