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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher H. Scholz is an American geologist and physicist. He is Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory.
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Published Works
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting (1990) (2841)
- Earthquakes and friction laws (1998) (1734)
- Dilatancy in the fracture of crystalline rocks (1966) (1455)
- The frequency-magnitude relation of microfracturing in rock and its relation to earthquakes (1968) (1367)
- Earthquake prediction: a physical basis. (1973) (951)
- Broad bandwidth study of the topography of natural rock surfaces (1985) (809)
- Physical explanation for the displacement-length relationship of faults using a post-yield fracture mechanics model (1992) (595)
- Microfracturing and the inelastic deformation of rock in compression (1968) (573)
- Displacement-length scaling relationship for faults: data synthesis and discussion (1992) (573)
- Frictional behavior and constitutive modeling of simulated fault gouge (1990) (522)
- Scaling laws for large earthquakes: Consequences for physical models (1982) (514)
- The brittle-plastic transition and the depth of seismic faulting (1988) (496)
- Growth of normal faults: Displacement-length scaling (1993) (470)
- Nature of seismic coupling along simple plate boundaries of the subduction type (1993) (432)
- Fault growth and fault scaling laws: Preliminary results (1993) (403)
- The depth of seismic faulting and the upper transition from stable to unstable slip regimes (1988) (392)
- Closure of random elastic surfaces in contact (1985) (387)
- Determination of total strain from faulting using slip measurements (1990) (385)
- The process zone: A microstructural view of fault growth (1998) (349)
- Changes in frequency–size relationship from small to large earthquakes (1992) (348)
- The permeability of whole and jointed Barre Granite (1979) (348)
- Two types of reservoir-induced seismicity (1988) (327)
- Roughness of natural fault surfaces (1987) (324)
- Theory of time-dependent rupture in the Earth (1981) (323)
- Particle-size distribution and microstructures within simulated fault gouge (1989) (319)
- Scaling differences between large interplate and intraplate earthquakes (1986) (304)
- Relation between vein length and aperture (1995) (303)
- Experimental study of the fracturing process in brittle rock (1968) (298)
- Wear and gouge formation in brittle faulting (1987) (289)
- Mechanism of underthrusting in southwest Japan: A model of convergent plate interactions (1971) (288)
- A model of normal fault interaction based on observations and theory (2000) (286)
- Fractal analysis applied to characteristic segments of the San Andreas Fault (1987) (285)
- The role of asperity indentation and ploughing in rock friction — I: Asperity creep and stick-slip (1976) (280)
- The effect of seamount subduction on seismic coupling (1997) (278)
- Growth of faults by accumulation of seismic slip (1992) (278)
- On the mechanism of seismic decoupling and back arc spreading at subduction zones (1995) (277)
- DETAILED STUDIES OF FRICTIONAL SLIDING OF GRANITE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM (1972) (273)
- Microfractures: A review (2014) (270)
- Mechanism of creep in brittle rock (1968) (264)
- On the stress dependence of the earthquake b value (2015) (257)
- closure of rock joints (1986) (246)
- Static fatigue of quartz (1972) (225)
- Evidence for a strong San Andreas fault (2000) (220)
- Earthquake source mechanics (1986) (219)
- Slip accumulation and lateral propagation of active normal faults in Afar (2001) (219)
- Off-fault aftershock clusters caused by shear stress increase? (1981) (217)
- Scaling invariance of crack surfaces (1995) (216)
- Earthquake frequency distribution and the mechanics of faulting (1983) (206)
- On the formation and growth of faults: an experimental study (1988) (194)
- Seismic and aseismic slip on the San Andreas Fault (1969) (178)
- Why large earthquakes do not nucleate at shallow depths (1983) (176)
- The seismic coupling of subduction zones revisited (2012) (167)
- A double Benioff Zone beneath the central Aleutians: An unbending of the lithosphere (1977) (160)
- Deformation of an island arc: Rates of moment release and crustal shortening in intraplate Japan determined from seismicity and Quaternary fault data (1982) (159)
- Anticrack-associated faulting at very high pressure in natural olivine (1990) (158)
- Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Great Basin, Western United States, as an Ensialic Interarc Basin (1971) (156)
- The critical slip distance for seismic faulting (1988) (156)
- A simplified spring-block model of earthquakes (1991) (146)
- Microfractures, aftershocks, and seismicity (1968) (145)
- Evidence for Incipient Rifting in Southern Africa (1976) (139)
- Shear heating and the state of stress on faults (1980) (136)
- Fault strain and seismic coupling on mid‐ocean ridges (1993) (135)
- Growth of a normal fault system: observations from the Lake Malawi basin of the east African rift (2000) (125)
- A reappraisal of large earthquake scaling (1994) (121)
- Integration of geological and seismological data for the analysis of seismic hazard: A case study of Japan (1984) (118)
- Critical dilatant volume of rocks at the onset of Tertiary creep (1977) (117)
- Healing and sealing of a simulated fault gouge under hydrothermal conditions: Implications for fault healing (1998) (116)
- Mechanics of continental rift architecture (1998) (113)
- Large Earthquake Triggering, Clustering, and the Synchronization of Faults (2010) (111)
- Elastic properties of contacting surfaces under normal and shear loads: 1. Theory (1989) (107)
- Aperture correlation of a fractal fracture (1988) (103)
- Mechanics of Faulting (1989) (103)
- Rupture Initiation in Shear Fracture of Rocks' An Experimental Study (1988) (101)
- Tectonics of the Intermountain Seismic Belt, Western United States: Microearthquake Seismicity and Composite Fault Plane Solutions (1972) (99)
- Frictional healing of quartz gouge under hydrothermal conditions: 1. Experimental evidence for solution transfer healing mechanism (2004) (98)
- Elastic properties of contacting surfaces under normal and shear loads: 2. Comparison of theory with experiment (1989) (96)
- Mechanisms of seismic quiescences (1988) (93)
- Rethinking Earthquake Prediction (1999) (92)
- Dynamic properties of stick‐slip friction of rock (1976) (90)
- Precipitation sealing and diagenesis: 1. Experimental results (1998) (90)
- The 1978 earthquake sequence near Thessaloniki (northern Greece) (1982) (90)
- Probabilities of Large Earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Region, California (1990) (89)
- Size distributions for large and small earthquakes (1997) (89)
- Frictional metamorphism, argon depletion, and tectonic stress on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand (1979) (89)
- Slip‐length scaling in large earthquakes: Observations and theory and implications for earthquake physics (2001) (88)
- Rapid aseismic moment release following the 5 December, 1997 Kronotsky, Kamchatka, Earthquake (2001) (87)
- Notes on dilatancy recovery (1974) (87)
- The 1912 Iceland earthquake rupture: Growth and development of a nascent transform system (1993) (86)
- Micromechanics of rock friction 2: Quantitative modeling of initial friction with contact theory (1992) (86)
- Dilatancy anisotropy and the response of rock to large cyclic loads (1979) (85)
- Detailed Seismicity of the Alpine Fault Zone and Fiordland Region, New Zealand (1973) (83)
- Source Parameters for Stick-Slip and for Earthquakes (1973) (82)
- FREQUENCY-MOMENT DISTRIBUTION OF EARTHQUAKES IN THE ALEUTIAN ARC: A TEST OF THE CHARACTERISTIC EARTHQUAKE MODEL (1985) (80)
- Fractals in Geophysics (1989) (79)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting 3 rd Edition (2002) (78)
- The behavior of a convergent plate boundary: Crustal deformation in the South Kanto District, Japan (1978) (75)
- Heterogeneities of the instrumental seismicity catalog (1904-1980) for strong shallow earthquakes (1984) (74)
- Wear processes during frictional sliding of rock: A theoretical and experimental study (1994) (72)
- The role of asperity indentation and ploughing in rock friction—II: Influence of relative hardness and normal load (1976) (70)
- A physical interpretation of the Haicheng earthquake prediction (1977) (70)
- Brittle strain regime transition in the Afar depression: Implications for fault growth and seafloor spreading (2000) (63)
- Imprint of the North American plate in Siberia revealed by GPS (2003) (62)
- Fault propagation and segmentation: insight from the microstructural examination of a small fault (1999) (61)
- Vertical deformation of the Japanese islands, 1996–1999 (2003) (61)
- Earthquakes and Faulting: Self-Organized Critical Phenomena with a Characteristic Dimension (1991) (60)
- Micromechanics of Rock Friction 1.Effects of Surface Roughness on Initial Friction and Slip Hardening in Westerly Granite (1992) (58)
- Experimental evidence for different strain regimes of crack populations in a clay model (1999) (57)
- A model of rift basin evolution constrained by first-order stratigraphic observations (1997) (56)
- Acoustic emissions produced by anticrack faulting during the olivine→spinel transformation (1992) (55)
- Strain accumulation along the San Andreas Fault (1969) (55)
- Micromechanics of the velocity and normal stress dependence of rock friction (1994) (54)
- Historical seismicity and rates of crustal deformation along the margins of the Ordos block, north China (1984) (54)
- A Physics‐Based Rock Friction Constitutive Law: Steady State Friction (2017) (52)
- Precipitation sealing and diagenesis: 2. Theoretical analysis (1998) (50)
- Crustal movements in tectonic areas (1972) (50)
- Transition regimes for growing crack populations. (2002) (48)
- Reply to comments on “A reappraisal of large earthquake scaling” by C. Scholz (1994) (48)
- Fault interactions and seismic hazard (2000) (47)
- Frictional healing of quartz gouge under hydrothermal conditions: 2. Quantitative interpretation with a physical model (2004) (47)
- The fractal geometry of some stylolites from the Calcare Massiccio Formation, Italy (2003) (46)
- Transform fault systems of California and New Zealand: similarities in their tectonic and seismic styles (1977) (46)
- Intrinsic and apparent short-time limits for fault healing: Theory, observations, and implications for velocity-dependent friction (2006) (45)
- A note on the scaling relations for opening mode fractures in rock (2010) (45)
- Earthquakes as chaos (1990) (44)
- Viscous roots of active seismogenic faults revealed by geologic slip rate variations (2013) (43)
- Mechanism of the main shock and the aftershock study of the Tabas-e-Golshan (Iran) earthquake of September 16, 1978: A preliminary report (1979) (42)
- The Fractal Geometry of Faults and Faulting (2013) (42)
- Source mechanisms of microearthquakes associated with underground mines in eastern Utah (1974) (41)
- The rheology of faults triggered by the olivine-spinel transformation in Mg2GeO4 and its implications for the mechanism of deep-focus earthquakes (1993) (41)
- The Black Mountain asperity: Seismic hazard of the southern San Francisco Peninsula, California (1985) (41)
- The mechanics of first order splay faulting: The strike-slip case (2010) (40)
- Strain localization along the San Andreas Fault: Consequences for loading mechanisms (1994) (38)
- The mechanism of tidal triggering of earthquakes at mid-ocean ridges (2018) (38)
- Anticrack-associated faulting at very high pressure in natural olivine (1991) (36)
- Post-Earthquake Dilatancy Recovery (1974) (35)
- Slip tapers at the tips of faults and earthquake ruptures (2004) (35)
- Triggered aseismic fault slip from nearby earthquakes, static or dynamic effect? (2003) (35)
- Vertical deformation of the Japanese islands (2002) (33)
- The Fractal Size and Spatial Distribution of Hydrocarbon Accumulations (1995) (33)
- Hysteresis in the closure of a nominally flat crack (1983) (32)
- A further note on earthquake size distributions (1998) (31)
- Earthquakes: Good tidings (2003) (30)
- Sound Velocity and Compressibility for Lunar Rocks 17 and 46 and for Glass Spheres from the Lunar Soil (1970) (30)
- Dehydration‐induced weakening and fault slip in gypsum: Implications for the faulting process at intermediate depth in subduction zones (2005) (30)
- Seismotectonics of the Arthur's Pass region, South Island, New Zealand (1978) (29)
- Microseismicity and tectonics of the Nevada Seismic Zone (1971) (29)
- Faults without friction? (1996) (29)
- Experimental diagenesis: Exploratory results (1995) (29)
- Stresses in the Vanuatu subducting slab: A test of two hypotheses (2003) (29)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: Preface to the second edition (2002) (28)
- Faulting process of the August 8, 1993, Guam earthquake: A thrust event in an otherwise weakly coupled subduction zone (1996) (27)
- The craton: Its effect on the distribution of seismicity and stress in North America (1980) (27)
- Utility of elastic models in predicting fault displacement fields (1998) (27)
- Strain and creep measurements on rocks by halographic interferometry (1974) (27)
- Earthquake Prediction: A Physical Basis Rockdilatancy andwaterdiffusion may explain a large class ofphenomena precursory toearthquakes. (1973) (26)
- Correction to “On the mechanics of earthquake afterslip” by Chris J. Marone, C.H. Scholz, and Roger Bilham (1991) (25)
- Evolution of stratigraphic sequences in multisegmented continental rift basins: Comparison of computer models with the basins of the East African rift system (2001) (25)
- The Brittle‐Ductile Transition Predicted by a Physics‐Based Friction Law (2019) (24)
- Direct measurement of the effective pressure law: Deformation of joints subject to pore and confining pressures (1990) (24)
- Crack Growth and Static Fatigue in Quartz (1971) (23)
- Stability of a sodium chloride indenter contact undergoing pressure solution (2006) (23)
- Long‐term seismic behavior of the focal and adjacent regions of great earthquakes during the time between two successive shocks (1997) (22)
- Interseismic deformation at the Nankai subduction zone and the Median Tectonic Line, southwest Japan (2003) (22)
- A direct measurement of shear fracture energy in rocks (1985) (22)
- An analysis of horizontal fracture initiation during hydrofrac stress measurements in granite at North Conway, New Hampshire (1988) (22)
- Short Note Quantifying Natural Fault Geometry: Statistics of Splay Fault Angles (2009) (22)
- Strain and creep in central California (1970) (21)
- 9. The Strength of the San Andreas Fault: A Discussion (2004) (21)
- Earthquake swarm in the Santa Barbara Channel, California, 1968 (1970) (21)
- Scaling relations for strong ground motion in large earthquakes (1982) (21)
- Fractal Transitions on Geological Surfaces (1995) (19)
- The Strength of the San Andreas Fault: A Critical Analysis (2013) (19)
- The 2000 Mw 6.8 Uglegorsk earthquake and regional plate boundary deformation of Sakhalin from geodetic data (2003) (19)
- Deformation by dissolution and plastic flow of a single crystal sodium chloride indenter: An experimental study under the confocal microscope (2008) (18)
- Velocity Anomalies in Dilatant Rock (1978) (18)
- Fluid Flow Along Very Smooth Joints at Effective Pressures Up to 200 Megapascals (2013) (18)
- Brittle fracture of rock (2019) (16)
- Elastic properties of a micro-breccia, igneous rock and lunar fines from Apollo 11 mission (1970) (15)
- Weakness amidst strength (1992) (14)
- Mode I microfracturing and fluid flow in damage zones: The key to distinguishing faults from slides (2013) (14)
- Earthquake Source Mechanics: Das/Earthquake Source Mechanics (1986) (14)
- Scaling of constitutive parameters of friction for fractal surfaces (1993) (14)
- Mapping secondary mineral formation in porous media using heavy metal tracers (2002) (13)
- Seismotectonics of Mid-Ocean Ridge Propagation in Hess Deep (2002) (13)
- Microfracturing of rock in compression. (1967) (13)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: Mechanics of faulting (2002) (12)
- The Rupture Mode of the Shallow Large‐Slip Surge of the Tohoku‐Oki Earthquake (2014) (11)
- Chapter 21 Paradigms or Small Change in Earthquake Mechanics (1992) (11)
- A fault in the ‘weak San Andreas’ theory (2000) (10)
- The Shear Deformation Zone and the Smoothing of Faults With Displacement (2020) (10)
- Elastic and thermal properties of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 rocks (1971) (10)
- Short Note Holocene Earthquake History of Cascadia: A Quantitative Test (2014) (9)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: Brittle fracture of rock (2002) (9)
- Persistent fine-scale fault structure and rupture development: A new twist in the Parkfield, California, story (2019) (9)
- A reappraisal of large earthquake scaling : Bulletin - Seismological Society of America, 84 (1), 1994, pp 215–218 (1994) (9)
- THE ROLE OF MICROFRACTURING IN ROCK DEFORMATION (1970) (9)
- Stress field in the Vanuatu (New Hebrides) Wadati–Benioff zone inferred by inversion of earthquake focal mechanisms: evidence for systematic lateral and vertical variations of principal stresses (2004) (9)
- Micromechanics of rock friction: 3. Quantitative modeling of base friction (1995) (9)
- Metamorphism, argon depletion, heat flow and stress on the Alpine fault (1978) (8)
- Scaling properties of faults and their populations (1997) (8)
- Reply to comments of Jon Olson and Richard Schultz (2011) (8)
- Reply [to “Comments on ‘Strain accumulation along the San Andreas Fault’ by J. C. Savage and R. O. Burford”] (1971) (7)
- First-order splay faults: dip-slip examples (2011) (7)
- Fractal nature of hydrocarbon deposits. 2. Spatial distribution (1991) (7)
- Preface: A short geophysical history of Westerly granite (1986) (7)
- Fractal Analysis Applied to Characteristic Segments (1987) (6)
- Effects of large explosions on tectonic strain (1969) (6)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: Rock friction (2002) (5)
- Global perspectives of chaos (1989) (5)
- Earthquake prediction and seismic hazard (1985) (5)
- Study of the seismic velocity ratio for several regions of the South Island, New Zealand: evaluation of regional ts/tp and near source Vp/Vs values (1978) (5)
- Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari (1998) (5)
- The Scaling of Geological Faults (2004) (5)
- Worldwide Distribution of Earthquakes (1969) (4)
- Comment and Reply on ‘Continental underthrusting beneath the Southern Alps of New Zealand’COMMENT (1982) (4)
- Detailed seismicity of the Alpine Fault Zone and Fiordland, South Island, New Zealand (1974) (3)
- Imaging Interseismic Locking at the Nankai Subduction Zone, Southwest Japan (2009) (3)
- Earthquake prediction: feasible and useful? (1999) (3)
- Models of the seismic cycle (1992) (3)
- The role of asperity indentation and ploughing in rock friction. Part 1: asperity creep and stick-slip. (3)
- 6.10 – Fault Mechanics (2007) (2)
- Brittle Tectonics: A Non-linear Dynamical System (2009) (2)
- Correction to paper by C. H. Scholz ‘Experimental study of the fracturing process in brittle rock’ (1968) (2)
- Reply [to “Reply to the Comments by C, H. Scholz on Paper ‘Does creep cause fracture in brittle rocks?’”] (1971) (2)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: The seismic cycle (2002) (1)
- Malawi Active Fault Database (2021) (1)
- State of the art in permeability tests of single-phased cut-off walls (2004) (1)
- Coseismic and aseismic deformations of the rock mass around deep level mining in South Africa - Joint South African and Japanese study (2009) (1)
- What comes first: The fault or the ductile shear zone? (2022) (1)
- Interest in complexity in brittle and granular systems grows (1998) (1)
- Strength of Faults and Maximum Stress-drops in Earthquakes (2006) (1)
- Surface deformation and elasticity studies in the Virgin Islands (1979) (1)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: Earthquake prediction and hazard analysis (2002) (1)
- Rock Strength under Confined Shock Conditions (1982) (1)
- The Effect of Nonhydrostatic Stress on the α→β and α→γ Olivine Phase Transformations (2013) (1)
- Application of a post-yield fracture mechanics model to fault and joint growth (1992) (0)
- An Experimental Study of Pressure Solution of Halite Under the Confocal Microscope (2003) (0)
- The Fractal Size and Spatial Distribution of Hydrocarbons (1995) (0)
- [Population growth and urban growth in India--1981 census]. (1984) (0)
- A physics-based rock-friction constitutive law , part I : 1 steady-state friction (2016) (0)
- Crustal loading and induced seismicity at the Yacambu Reservoir, Venezuela: final technical report (1979) (0)
- 4932 - THE SCALING OF GEOLOGIC FAULTS (2013) (0)
- Rock mechanics and dynamic processes in the crust (1971) (0)
- Maurice Ewing V Symposium Participants (1986) (0)
- Interactions and Growth of Normal Faults: Comparison of Model with Observations (0)
- The importance of plastic flow in the deformation of a sodium chloride indenter undergoing pressure solution (2005) (0)
- Tectonophysics 1979–1982 (1983) (0)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: References (2002) (0)
- Analysis of a 100 Year Geodetic Record from Northern California (2013) (0)
- Persistent fine-scale fault structures control rupture development in Parkfield, CA. (2016) (0)
- The Prediction Puzzle (2010) (0)
- (2019). The mechanism of tidal triggering of earthquakes at mid-ocean ridges. Nature Communications (1), (2019) (0)
- Kinematics of the New Zealand Plate Boundary: Relative Motion by GPS Across Networks of 1000 km and 50 km Spacing (1998) (0)
- Heat Flow Paradox (2021) (0)
- Crustal loading and induced seismicity at the Yacambu Reservoir, Venezuela (1981) (0)
- Physical-property measurements on samples from an analogue Soviet Nuclear Test Site: Northern Maine. Technical report (1991) (0)
- Characterizing the structural maturity of fault zones using high-resolution earthquake locations. (2017) (0)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: Mechanics of earthquakes (2002) (0)
- NEW STRATIGRAPHIC SECTIONS AND CORES OF LATE QUATERNARY AGE FROM THE ONEIDA BASIN, NEW YORK (2016) (0)
- Patience Cowie and the Inception of Modern Fault Mechanics: A Recollection (2021) (0)
- Toward a Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphic framework for East African palaeoenvironmental records (2015) (0)
- Stress corrosion cracking in the earth (1980) (0)
- Resurvey of site stability quadrilaterals, Otay Mountain and Quincy, California. [San Andreas fault experiment] (1977) (0)
- The mechanism of tidal triggering of earthquakes at mid-ocean ridges (2019) (0)
- The strength of the San Andreas fault : a contrarian view 2 (2004) (0)
- Cooperative tectonic studies from seismic network in central Italy (1981) (0)
- Pattern Formation in a NaCl Crystal undergoing Strain-enhanced Dissolution (2006) (0)
- Tectonophysics – 1979–1982 (1983) (0)
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting: Seismotectonics (2002) (0)
- Plate kinematics in norteast Asia constrained by GPS (INVITED) (2004) (0)
- Quasi-Static Experiments Designed to Explain Strength of Rock in an Explosion (1985) (0)
- Strain buildup and release, earthquake prediction and selection of VLB sites for the margins of the North Pacific (1979) (0)
- Earthquake debate - Christopher Scholz (1999) (0)
- Axial Volcano: How earthquakes respond to periodic tidal stress changes (2019) (0)
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