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New paper on long-term slip rate variability

Should we expect site slip rates around restraining bends to remain constant over the 10-100k time scales? Probably not ’cause sites migrate and fault systems evolve! Hanna Elston led this new paper out in Geology.

Strain map on the top and slip rate at sites indicted with colored boxes.

Elston, Hanna M., Michele L. Cooke and Alexandra Hatem, 2022. Non-steady state slip rates emerge along restraining bends under constant remote loading, Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G49745.1

Link to press release about this paper

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