Talk:Fault trace

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 January 2020 and 7 May 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Tigitar. Peer reviewers: Torrin Smith, MattDuchow.

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Hello geology community: I'm Stephen Nash, a student editor in the school of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech. I've been assigned to improve this article over the semester. As it sits, the content seems unfortunately minimal, so I'll attempt to patch that up as I find resources. I hope to give a more in depth explanation for this phenomenon as well as to input more examples of it happening on the planet. Additionally, I'll try to find some better citations for the topic since it's currently violating those standards. There is definitely not much information on the internet about this topic, so if anyone would like to help me out on this journey, I'd greatly appreciate it. I welcome any comments or advice. Thanks!Stephenonash (talk) 00:38, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I have found some preliminary sources. Citations are below. Cole, G, & Weihe, P (2016). Textbook of Limnology. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.1-4786-2307-1.

“Fault Trace.” Earthquake Glossary, United States Geological Survey, earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=fault%20trace.

Martel, S (1997). “Effects of cohesive zones on small faults and implications for secondary fracturing and fault trace geometry”. Journal of Structural Geology. Volume(19): 835-847. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8141(97)00002-3

Steeling, M, Wesnousky, S, & Kunihiko, S (1996). “Fault trace complexity, cumulative slip, and the shape of the magnitude-frequency distribution for strike-slip faults: A global survey”. Geophysical Journal International. Volume(124): 833-868. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb05641.x

Yielding, G, Needham, T, & Jones, H (1996). “Sampling of fault populations using sub-surface data: a review”. Journal of Structural Geology. Volume(18): 135-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8141(96)80039-3.

Young-Seog, K, & Sanderson, D (2005). “The relationship between displacement and length of faults: a review”. Earth Science Reviews. Volume(68): 317-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.06.003.Stephenonash (talk) 04:05, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Final Update (for now): I updated the article. In the end, I was only able to find a couple references with enough information relevant to the topic at hand, but it is still a great improvement from the initial article. The article has undergone a base level peer review, in which I corrected as much as I could based on feedback. Stephenonash (talk) 05:17, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Coverage of article[edit]

The article as it stands overlaps to some extent with the surface rupture article. It also fails to mention the effects of erosion along old and inactive faults, like the effects of glaciation on the Great Glen Fault, which has a very obvious surface trace, despite not having moved significantly for 10s of millions of years. Finally, in many cases the sense of motion associated with surface traces of active faults cannot easily be determined, unless they are studied immediately after an earthquake, so I find that section unconvincing. Strike-slip faults under recent sediment tend to show up as en-echelon arrays of riedel shears. I should add this to my "to do" list, which never seems to get any shorter. Mikenorton (talk) 20:14, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]