Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have revealed that shale gas extraction was geologically challenged by fault networks at all the drill sites attempted in Lancashire. Writing in the journal ...

Frictional mechanics in seismic faulting underpin the processes by which stress accumulates and is released during earthquakes. At its core, fault motion is governed by the interplay between shear ...

Structural geologist Michele Cooke calls it the "million-dollar question" that underlies all work in her laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: what goes on deep in the earth as strike ...