Professor Nicola De Paola's Outputs (3)

Partitioning of oblique convergence coupled to the fault locking behavior of fold-and-thrust belts: evidence from the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, M., Walters, R., Song, S., Saville, C., De Paola, N., Ford, J., …Sun, W. (2017). Partitioning of oblique convergence coupled to the fault locking behavior of fold-and-thrust belts: evidence from the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics, 36(9), 1679-1698. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017tc004476

Oblique plate convergence is common, but it is not clear how the obliquity is achieved by continental fold-and-thrust belts. We address this problem in the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, using fieldwork observations, geomorphic analysis a... Read More about Partitioning of oblique convergence coupled to the fault locking behavior of fold-and-thrust belts: evidence from the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau.

Evaluating roughness scaling properties of natural active fault surfaces by means of multi-view photogrammetry (2017)
Journal Article
Corradetti, A., McCaffrey, K., De Paola, N., & Tavani, S. (2017). Evaluating roughness scaling properties of natural active fault surfaces by means of multi-view photogrammetry. Tectonophysics, 717, 599-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.08.023

Fault roughness is a measure of the dimensions and distribution of fault asperities, which can act as stress concentrators affecting fault frictional behaviour and the dynamics of rupture propagation. Studies aimed at describing fault roughness requi... Read More about Evaluating roughness scaling properties of natural active fault surfaces by means of multi-view photogrammetry.

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.