Michele Cooke
@geomechcooke.bsky.social
Fault system evolution in the Earth’s crust, in scaled experiments and in numerical models : deaf STEM 🧏♀️🦻🏻👩🔬 : she/her
How do releasing bends evolve in weaker crust? Lots of sinistral cross faults!! (compare to previous post)
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
May 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
How do releasing bends evolve in weaker crust? Lots of sinistral cross faults!! (compare to previous post)
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Development of an experimental releasing bend shows significant strain partitioning on faults.
Read more at: Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Read more at: Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
May 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Development of an experimental releasing bend shows significant strain partitioning on faults.
Read more at: Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Read more at: Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Bruce, one of my American Chestnut trees, is looking strong. There is a metaphor in this photo of a tree that is vulnerable to blight that has wiped out its species (another chestnut sapling in my yard has cankers) and still grows strong and tall.
#persist
#persist
May 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Bruce, one of my American Chestnut trees, is looking strong. There is a metaphor in this photo of a tree that is vulnerable to blight that has wiped out its species (another chestnut sapling in my yard has cankers) and still grows strong and tall.
#persist
#persist
Former UMass undergrad, Alana Gabriel led this study that came out today. Great job Alana! 🎉
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
May 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Former UMass undergrad, Alana Gabriel led this study that came out today. Great job Alana! 🎉
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
If you have been wondering how strike-slip faults evolve in the presence of pre-existing weaknesses, wonder no more. We got you!
Yup, the early slip along the weaknesses increase strike-slip fault roughness, just like you thought.
(Check out the cute ephemeral sinistral connector fautls in red!)
Yup, the early slip along the weaknesses increase strike-slip fault roughness, just like you thought.
(Check out the cute ephemeral sinistral connector fautls in red!)
May 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
If you have been wondering how strike-slip faults evolve in the presence of pre-existing weaknesses, wonder no more. We got you!
Yup, the early slip along the weaknesses increase strike-slip fault roughness, just like you thought.
(Check out the cute ephemeral sinistral connector fautls in red!)
Yup, the early slip along the weaknesses increase strike-slip fault roughness, just like you thought.
(Check out the cute ephemeral sinistral connector fautls in red!)
incremental vorticy - need to adjust the animation so that color bar is bigger.
May 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
incremental vorticy - need to adjust the animation so that color bar is bigger.
Sometimes when things get tough, I like to watch strike-slip faults grow.
Over and over again.
Over and over again.
May 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Sometimes when things get tough, I like to watch strike-slip faults grow.
Over and over again.
Over and over again.
🎉My 3 year old American Chestnut is growing flowers! 🎉Btw His name is Bruce. His sibling Margaret does not have flowers but she is looking grand.
May 24, 2024 at 12:36 PM
🎉My 3 year old American Chestnut is growing flowers! 🎉Btw His name is Bruce. His sibling Margaret does not have flowers but she is looking grand.
Looking good Socal!
Woodford-Eckis @ Pomona Geology.
Woodford-Eckis @ Pomona Geology.
February 11, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Looking good Socal!
Woodford-Eckis @ Pomona Geology.
Woodford-Eckis @ Pomona Geology.
Visiting Los Angeles and just felt a lil 4.5 earthquake with epicenter near Riverside.
January 25, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Visiting Los Angeles and just felt a lil 4.5 earthquake with epicenter near Riverside.
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Fattaruso for defending her PhD.
Great way to start 2024.
Great way to start 2024.
January 3, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Fattaruso for defending her PhD.
Great way to start 2024.
Great way to start 2024.
The UMass Geomechanics group celebrated back to back defenses of Christ Ramos Sánchez (MS thesis) and Hanna Elston (PhD dissertation). 👏🥂
I am so proud of what these two scientists have accomplished and look forward to seeing what comes next for them.
I am so proud of what these two scientists have accomplished and look forward to seeing what comes next for them.
December 24, 2023 at 2:46 AM
The UMass Geomechanics group celebrated back to back defenses of Christ Ramos Sánchez (MS thesis) and Hanna Elston (PhD dissertation). 👏🥂
I am so proud of what these two scientists have accomplished and look forward to seeing what comes next for them.
I am so proud of what these two scientists have accomplished and look forward to seeing what comes next for them.