Tell them there are different kinds of faults (strike-slip, normal, and reverse faults). If you have pictures of faults and fault ruptures, now is a good time to share them with your students.
While it is often said that mountains don’t move, in reality, the Colorado Rocky Mountains are the result of a slow dance ...
Our model considers two dimensional poroelastic deformation adjacent to a predefined normal or reverse fault that slips according to rate-state friction. Faults with background friction coefficients ...