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Fault Geometry Effects

Fault Geometry Effects is a geophysical construct that characterizes the influence of a fault's spatial configuration—including its orientation, curvature, segmentation, and discontinuities—on the nucleation, propagation, and arrest of seismic ruptures within the Earth's crust.

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891

Active tectonics of the Alpine--Himalayan belt: the Aegean Sea and surrounding regions

Dan McKenzie · Geophysical Journal International · 1978 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Strike‐slip fault geometry in Turkey and its influence on earthquake activity

Aykut Barka, Katharine Kadinsky‐Cade · Tectonics · 1988 · 1.1K citations

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Geometry of Shearing Stress and Relation to Faulting

Robert E. Wallace · The Journal of Geology · 1951 · 775 citations

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Neotectonics of the Sumatran fault, Indonesia

Kerry Sieh, D. H. Natawidjaja · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2000 · 712 citations · Full text

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Fault growth by segment linkage: an explanation for scatter in maximum displacement and trace length data from the Canyonlands Grabens of SE Utah

Joseph A. Cartwright, Bruce D. Trudgill, Christopher S. Mansfield · Journal of Structural Geology · 1995 · 691 citations

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    John J. Walsh

    University College Dublin, Ireland

    14 publications · 1.6K citations

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    D. D. Oglesby

    University of California, Riverside, United States

    10 publications · 846 citations

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  3. ML
    Michele L. Cooke

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    9 publications · 290 citations

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  4. CC
    Conrad Childs

    University College Dublin, Ireland

    8 publications · 870 citations

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    Gerald Roberts

    Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 497 citations

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754

  1. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

    Rome, Italy

    25 h-index

    126 publications

    6.5K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    25 h-index

    98 publications

    7K citations

  3. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    24 h-index

    82 publications

    3.6K citations

  4. Istanbul Technical University

    Istanbul, Türkiye

    15 h-index

    27 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    14 h-index

    27 publications

    3.1K citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    25 publications

    6.7K citations

  7. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    27 publications

    4K citations

  8. Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    La Jolla, United States

    13 h-index

    21 publications

    1.9K citations

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  1. Journal of Structural Geology

    115 publications · 9.3K citations

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  2. Tectonophysics

    90 publications · 5.3K citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 36 publications · 3.3K citations

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  4. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

    BSSA · 42 publications · 2.2K citations

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  5. Geology

    29 publications · 2.3K citations

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