Jamie Kirkpatrick
PhD: University of Glasgow (2008)
MGeol: University of Leeds (2003)
Structural geology, Fault mechanics, Faults and fluid flow, Shear zones, Microstructures
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Kirkpatrick, J. D., Fagereng, Å., and Shelly, D. R. (2021), ‘Geological constraints on the mechanisms of slow earthquakes’, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2, 285–301,
Doi:10.1038/s43017-021-00148-w
Seyler, C. E., Kirkpatrick, J. D., Savage, H. M., Hirose, T., and Faulkner, D. R. (2020), ‘Rupture to the trench? Frictional properties and fracture energy of incoming sediments at the Cascadia subduction zone’, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 546, 116413, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116413.
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Edwards, J. H., Verdecchia, A., Kluesner, J. W., Harrington, R. M., Silver, E. A. (2020), 'Subduction megathrust heterogeneity characterized from 3-D seismic data', Nature Geoscience, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0562-9.
Rabinowitz, H. S., Savage, H. M., Polissar, P. J., Rowe, C. D., and Kirkpatrick, J. D. (2020), 'Earthquake slip surfaces identified by biomarker thermal maturity within the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake fault zone', Nature Communications, 11:553, doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14447-1.
Dascher-Cousineau, K., Kirkpatrick, J. D., and Cooke, M. (2018), ‘Smoothing of Fault Slip Surfaces by Scale-Invariant Wear’, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 123, doi:10.1029/2018JB015638.
Kirkpatrick, J. D., Shervais, K. A. H., and Ronayne, M. J. (2018), 'Spatial variation in the slip zone thickness of a seismogenic fault', Geophysical Research Letters, 45(18), 7542-7550, doi: 10.1029/2018GL078767.