Technical Publications

• Beeler, N. M., Inferring earthquake source properties from laboratory observations and the scope of lab contributions to source physics, in Earthquakes: Radiated energy and earthquake physics, eds. Abercrombie, McGarr, Kanamori, and Di Toro, Geophysical Monograph 170, 350 pp, 2006.
• Beeler, N. M., Laboratory-observed faulting in intrinsically and apparently weak materials: strength, seismic coupling, dilatancy, and pore fluid pressure, in The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults, ed. T. Dixon and C. Moore, Columbia University Press., 2007.
• Beeler, N.M., Review of the physical basis of laboratory-derived relations for brittle failure and their implications for earthquake occurrence and earthquake nucleation, Pure App. Geophy., 161, 1853-1876, 2004.
• Beeler, N.M., and D.A. Lockner, Why earthquakes correlate weakly with the solid Earth tides: Effects of periodic stress on the rate and probability of earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B8), doi: 10.1029/2001JB001518, 2003.
• Beeler, N.M., and Hickman, S.H., Stress-induced, time-dependent fracture closure at hydrothermal conditions, J. Geophy. Res., 109, doi:10.1029/2002JB001782, 2004.
• Beeler, N.M., Lockner, D.L., and Hickman, S.H., A simple stick-slip and creep-slip model for repeating earthquakes and its implication for microearthquakes at Parkfield, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 91(6), 1797-1804, 2001.
• Beeler, N. M., T. E. Tullis, A. K. Kronenberg, and L. A. Reinen, The instantaneous rate dependence in low temperature laboratory rock friction and rock deformation experiments, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B07310, doi:10.1029/2005JB003772, 2007.
• Beeler, N. M., T. E. Tullis, and D. L Goldsby, Constitutive relationships and physical basis of fault strength due to flash-heating, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B01401, doi:10.1029/2007JB00498, 2008.
• Beeler, N.M., Wong, T.-f., and Hickman, S.H., On expected relationships between apparent stress, static stress drop, effective shear fracture energy, and efficiency, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 93, 1381-1389, 2003.
• Byerlee, J., Friction of rocks, Pure App. Geophy., 166, 615-625, 1978.
• Dieterich, J.H., and Kilgore, B.D., Direct observation of frictional contacts: New insights for state-dependent properties, PAGEOPH, 143, no. 1/2/3, 283-302, 1994.
• Dieterich, J.H., and Kilgore, B.D., Imaging surface contacts: power law contact distributions and stresses in quartz, calcite, glass and acrylic plastic, Tectonophysics, 256, 219-239, 1996.
• Dieterich, J.H., and Kilgore, B.D., Implications of fault constitutive properties for earthquake prediction, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 3787-3794, 1996.
• Kilgore, B.D., and Dieterich, J.H., Velocity dependent friction of granite over a wide range of conditions, Geophy. Res. Lett., 20, no. 10, 903-906, 1993.
• Lockner, D.A., A generalized law for brittle deformation of Westerly granite, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 5107-5123, 1998.
• Lockner, D.A., The role of acoustic emission in the study of rock fracture, Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. Geomech. Abstr., 30, 883-899, 1993.
• Lockner, D.A., and Beeler, N.M., Premonitory slip and tidal triggering of earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 20133-120151, 1999.
• Lockner, D.A., and Beeler, N.M., Rock Failure and Earthquakes - Chapter 32, in International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, edited by W.H.K. Lee, H. Kanamori, P.C. Jennings, and  C. Kisslinger, pp. 505-537 (plus appendix on CD-ROM), Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2002.
• Lockner, D.A., and Beeler, N.M., Stress-induced anisotropic poroelasticity response in sandstone, Electronic Proc. 16th ASCE Engin. Mech. Conf., U. Washington, Seattle, WA, July 16-18, 2003.
• Lockner, D.A., and Byerlee, J.D. , Changes in complex resistivity during creep in granite, Pure and Appl. Geophys., 124, 659-676, 1986.
• Lockner, D.A., and J. D. Byerlee (1977a), Acoustic emission and creep in rock at high confining pressure and differential stress, Bull. of the Seismological Society of Amer., 67, 247-258.
• Lockner, D.A., and J. D. Byerlee (1977b), Hydrofracture in Weber sandstone at high confining pressure and differential stress, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 2018-2026.
• Lockner, D.A., Byerlee, J.D., Kuksenko, V., Ponomarev, A., and Sidorin, A., Observation of quasistatic fault growth from acoustic emissions, in, Fault Mechanics and Transport Properties of Rocks, Academic Press, Ltd., 1992.
• Lockner, D.A., Naka, H., Tanaka, H., Ito, H., and Ikeda, R., Permeability and strength of core samples from the Nojima fault of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, in, Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Nojima Fault Core and Borehole Analysis, U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 00-129, 2000.
• Lockner, D.A., and Okubo, P.G. , Measurements of frictional heating in granite, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 4313-4320, 1983.
• Lockner, D.A., and Stanchits S.A., Undrained poroelastic response of sandstones to deviatoric stress change, J. Geophys.   Res., 107 (B12), 2353, doi:10.1029/2001JB001460, 2002.
• Lockner, D.A., J. B. Walsh, and J. D. Byerlee (1977), Changes in seismic velocity and attenuation during deformation of granite, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 5374-5378.
• Moore, D.E., and Lockner, D.A., 2007, Comparative deformation behavior of minerals in serpentinized ultramafic rock: Application to the slab-mantle interface in subduction zones: International Geology Review, 49, 401-415.
• Moore, D.E., and Lockner, D.A.,Crystallographic controls on the frictional strengths of layered-structured minerals, 2004, (poster).
• Moore, D.E., and Lockner, D.A., 2007, Friction of the smectite clay montmorillonite: A review and interpretation of data, in The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults, T. H. Dixon and C. Moore, eds., Margins Theoretical and Experimental Earth Science Series, vol. 2, Columbia University Press, pp. 317-345.
• Moore, D.E., and Lockner, D.A., Interpreting the frictional behavior of the smectite clay montmorillonite, American Geophysical Union, 2004, (poster).
• Moore, D.E., and Lockner, D.A., Solid solution processes and the frictional strength of heated brucite, American Geophysical Union, 2005, (poster).
• Moore, D.E., and Lockner, D.A., 2008, Talc friction in the temperature range 25degrees-400°C: Relevance for fault-zone weakening: Tectonophysics, 449, 120-132.
• Moore, D.E., Lockner, D.A., Ito, H. and Ikeda, R., Correlation of Deformation Textures with Laboratory Measurements of Permeability and Strength of Nojima Fault Zone Core Samples, in, Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Nojima Fault Core and Borehole Analysis, U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 00-129, 2000.
• Moore, D. E., Lockner, D. A., Tanaka, H., and Iwata, K., 2004, The coefficient of friction of chrysotile gouge at seismogenic depths: International Geology Review, 16, 385-398. (Republished in the collection, W. G. Ernst, ed., 2004, Serpentine and Serpentinites: Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry, Ecology, Geophysics, and Tectonics: Geological Society of America International Book Series, 8, 525-538.)
• Morrow, C.A., Permeability of Deep Drillhole Core Samples, in, Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Nojima Fault Core and Borehole Analysis, U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 00-129, 2000.
• Morrow, C.A., and Lockner, D.A., Hayward Fault Rocks: Porosity, Density and Strength Measurements, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-421, 2001.
• Morrow, C.A., and Lockner, D.A., Physical properties of two core samples from well 34-9RD2 at the Coso Geothermal Field, California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1230, 2006.
• Morrow, C.A., Moore, D.E., and Lockner, D.A., The effect of mineral bond strength and adsorbed water on fault gouge frictional strength, Geophy. Res. Lett., 27, no. 6, 815-818, 2000.
• Morrow, C.A., Radney, B., and Byerlee, J., Frictional strength and the effective pressure law of montmorillonite and illite clays, in, Fault Mechanics and Transport Properties of Rocks, Academic Press, Ltd., 1992.
• Morrow, C.A., Solum, J., Tembe, S., Lockner, D., and Wong, T.-f., Using drill cutting separates to estimate the strength of narrow shear zones at SAFOD, Geophy. Res. Lett., 34, L11301, doi:10.1029/2007GL029665, 2007.
• Scott, David R., Lockner, D.A., Byerlee, J D., and Sammis, C.G, Triaxial Testing of Lopez Fault Gouge at 150 MPa Mean Effective Stress, PAGEOPH, Vol. 142, No. 3/4, 1994.
• Solum, J.G., Hickman, S.H., Lockner, DA., Moore, D.E., van der Pluijm, B.A., Schleicher, A.M., and Evans, J.P., Mineralogical characterization of protolith and fault rocks from the SAFOD main hole, Geophy. Res. Lett., 33, L21314, 2006.
• Stanchits, S.A., D.A. Lockner, and A.V. Ponomarev, Anisotropic changes in P-wave velocity and attenuation during deformation and fluid infiltration of granite, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 93 (4), 1803-1822, 2003.
• Summers, R., and Byerlee, J., Summary of results of frictional sliding studies at confining pressures up to 6.98 kb in selected rock materials, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-142, 129 pp., 1977.
• Tembe, S., Lockner, D.A., Solum, J.G., Morrow, C.A., Wong, T.-f., and Moore, D.E., Frictional strength of cuttings and core from SAFOD drillhole phases 1 and 2, Geophy. Res. Lett., 33, L23307, doi:10.1029/2006GL027626, 2006.
• Weeks, J. D., D. A. Lockner, and J. D. Byerlee (1978), Changes in b-value during movement on cut surfaces in granite, Bull. of the Seismological Society of Amer., 68, 333-341.