Fault Dynamics Research Group
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1784 443 581
The Fault Dynamics Research Group undertakes fundamental and collaborative multidisciplinary research on fault systems and fault processes. Using field studies, remote sensing analyses, numerical modelling, 2D & 3D seismic interpretation and scaled analogue modelling in their internationally renowned analogue modelling laboratories the Group investigate crustal fault systems, their 3D geometries and their 4D kinematic evolution.
The Group's primary aim is to carry out fundamental research into fault processes and fault geometries and their relationships to the geodynamics of sedimentary basins such that the results can be applied to the exploration and development of hydrocarbon and mineral resources.
Research programmes cover the full spectrum of tectonic regimes. They include:
A particular focus of the Research Group is the development of 4D models for reservoir structures as well as fault-related folding and fracture development in various tectonic settings.
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