Darrell W. Sims

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that pull-apart basins are dramatically different when overburden rides over a ductile horizon, and that thickness of the ductiles horizon exerts control on basin development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the geologic structure of the Edwards Aquifer to assess the large-scale aquifer architecture, analyze fault offset and stratigraphic juxtaposition relationships, evaluate fault-zone deformation and dissolution and fault-system architecture, and investigate fault-block deformation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use two-dimensional geometric modeling to show that simultaneous slip on crossing conjugate normal faults requires loss, gain, or localized redistribution of cross-sectional area, while alternating sequential slip on the crossing faults can produce crossing fault patterns without area modification in cross section.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that synthetic dip panels adjacent to normal faults should be expected at some scale in all normal fault systems, and five fault-related mechanisms for the development of synthetic dip are antilistric fault bend, distributed shear, shear in relay zone of vertically and/or laterally segmented faults, and fault block impingement and lateral contraction.