Publications

Here are a selection of recent papers. PDF versions can be downloaded for most by clicking on the PDF link after each paper.

Faulkner, D.R., Mitchell, T.M., Healy, D. and Heap, M.J. 2006. Slip on 'weak' faults by the rotation of regional stress in the fracture damage zone. Nature, 444, 922-925. doi:10.1038/nature05353. PDF

Faulkner, D.R. 2004.  A model for the variation of permeability of clay-bearing fault gouge with depth in the brittle crust. Geophysical Research Letters, 2005. PDF

Faulkner, D.R., Lewis, A.C. and Rutter, E.H. 2003. On the internal structure and mechanics of large strike-slip faults: field observations from the Carboneras fault, southeastern Spain. Tectonophysics 367, 235-251. May 2003. PDF

Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 2003. The effect of temperature, nature of the pore fluid, and sub-yield differential stress on the permeability of phyllosilicate-rich fault gouge. Journal of Geophysical Research 108, No. B5, 10.1029/2001JB001581. PDF

Crawford, B.R., Myers, R.D., Woronow, A., Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 2002. Porosity-permeability relationships in clay-bearing fault gouge. Society of Petroleum Engineers/International Society for Rock Mechanics, 78214, 1-13.  PDF

Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 2001. Can the maintenance of overpressured fluids in large strike-slip fault zones explain their apparent weakness? Geology 29, 503-506.  PDF

Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 2000. Comparisons of water and argon permeability in natural clay-bearing fault gouges under high pressure at 20°C. Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 16415-16426.  PDF

Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 1998. The gas permeability of clay-bearing fault gouge at 20°C. In: Faults, fault sealing and fluid flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs, G. Jones, Q. Fisher and R. Knipe (Eds.), Geological Society of London Special Publication 147, 147-156.

Doblas, M., Faulkner, D., Mahecha, V., Aparicio, A., López-Ruiz, J., and Hoyos, M., 1997. Morphologically ductile criteria for the sense of movement on slickensides from an extensional detachment fault in southern Spain. Journal of Structural Geology 19, 1045-1054. PDF

Abstracts

Heap, M.J. and Faulkner, D.R. 2005. Elastic property development in variably fractured crystalline rocks. Abstract, Geological Society of London, Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting, Plymouth.

Mitchell, T.M. and Faulkner, D.R. 2005. Fault structure and damage surrounding a large strike-slip fault within the Atacama Fault System, northern Chile. Abstract, Geological Society of London, Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting, Plymouth.

Faulkner, D.R. 2005. A model for the variation in permeability of clay-bearing fault gouge with depth in the brittle crust. Abstract, Geological Society of London, Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting, Plymouth.

*Mitchell, T.M., Faulkner, D.R., Prior, D.J. and Cembrano, J. 2004. An analysis of the microscopic and macroscopic damage surrounding large strike-slip faults within the Atacama fault system, northern Chile. Abstract, Gordon Conference on “Rock Deformation”, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.

Allen, M.B., Alsop, G.I, Baron, M., Faulkner, D.R., Ismail-Zadeh, A. & Parnell, J. 2004. Faults in anticlinal hydrocarbon traps: examples from the South Caspian Basin. Abstract, AAPG European Regional Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.

Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 2004. Fluid pressure changes during the nucleation phase of an earthquake. Abstract, Geological Society of London, Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting, Durham.

Faulkner, D.R. 2003. (INVITED) The permeability of large phyllosilicate-rich fault zones in the brittle crust. EUG/EGS/AGU joint meeting, Nice, France.

*Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 2002. The effect of temperature, nature of the pore fluid, and sub-yield differential stress on the permeability of phyllosilicate-rich fault gouge. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 83.

*Mirabella, F., Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 2002. The frictional properties of natural and synthetic anhydrite fault gouge. Abstract, Gordon Conference on “Rock Deformation”, Il Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy.

*Lewis, A.C., Rutter, E.H. and Faulkner, D.R. 2002. Field observations of pervasive meso-scale fracturing in fine-grained carbonate rocks. Abstract, Gordon Conference on “Rock Deformation”, Il Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy.

*Faulkner, D.R. and Rutter, E.H. 2002. The effect of temperature, and the nature of the pore fluid on the permeability of phyllosilicate-rich fault gouge. Abstract, Gordon Conference on “Rock Deformation”, Il Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy.

Allen, M.B., Alsop, G.I., Ismail-Zadeh, A., Jackson, J. and Faulkner, D.R. 2002. Scales of Deformation in the South Caspian Basin. Abstract, Geological Society of London Meeting on “The Petroleum Geology of the Caspian Basins”, Burlington House, London.