Friction of Mineralogically Controlled Serpentinites and Implications for Fault Weakness (2018)
Journal Article
Tesei, T., Harbord, C., De Paola, N., Collettini, C., & Viti, C. (2018). Friction of Mineralogically Controlled Serpentinites and Implications for Fault Weakness. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 123(8), 6976-6991. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb016058

Serpentines are common minerals in several major tectonic faults in a variety of geodynamic settings and have variable frictional strength and complex deformation processes. Here we present friction experiments carried out on a suite of serpentine sa... Read More about Friction of Mineralogically Controlled Serpentinites and Implications for Fault Weakness.

Earthquake nucleation on rough faults (2017)
Journal Article
Harbord, C. W., Nielsen, S. B., De Paola, N., & Holdsworth, R. E. (2017). Earthquake nucleation on rough faults. Geology, 45(10), 931-934. https://doi.org/10.1130/g39181.1

Earthquake nucleation is currently explained using rate and state stability analysis, which successfully models the behavior of laboratory simulated faults with constant thickness gouge layers. However, roughness is widely observed on natural faults... Read More about Earthquake nucleation on rough faults.