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David J. Sanderson is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with particular focus on Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work covers a range of topics in earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, geological formations and processes, geological and geophysical studies, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Earth-Science Reviews, Geosciences, Tectonics, Journal of Structural Geology, and Solid Earth.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David J. Sanderson are:

  • David Peacock
  • Casey W. Nixon
  • Bernd Leiss
  • Frank J. Peel
  • L.C. McNeill

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David J. Sanderson include:

  • Quantitative Constraints on Faulting and Fault Slip Rates in the Northern Main Ethiopian Rift, 2020, Tectonics
  • Connectivity and network development of carbonate-hosted fault damage zones from western Malta, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Comparison of fold-thrust belts driven by plate convergence and gravitational failure, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Analysis of deformation bands associated with the Trachyte Mesa intrusion, Henry Mountains, Utah: implications for reservoir connectivity and fluid flow around sill intrusions, 2021, Solid Earth
  • Use of Analogue Exposures of Fractured Rock for Enhanced Geothermal Systems, 2022, Geosciences

Best Publications

  • Displacements, segment linkage and relay ramps in normal fault zones

    D.C.P Peacock;D.J Sanderson

  • Fault damage zones

    Young-Seog Kim;David C.P Peacock;David J Sanderson

  • The relationship between displacement and length of faults: a review

    Young-Seog Kim;David J. Sanderson

  • Geometry and Development of Relay Ramps in Normal Fault Systems

    D. C. P. Peacock;D. J. Sanderson

  • The use of topology in fracture network characterization

    David J. Sanderson;Casey W. Nixon

  • Models of strain variation in nappes and thrust sheets: A review

    David J. Sanderson

  • Sampling power-law distributions

    G. Pickering;J.M. Bull;D.J. Sanderson

  • The development of fold axes oblique to the regional trend

    David J. Sanderson

  • Glossary of normal faults

    D.C.P. Peacock;R.J. Knipe;D.J. Sanderson

  • Mesoscale strike-slip faults and damage zones at Marsalforn, Gozo Island, Malta

    Young-Seog Kim;D.C.P Peacock;David J Sanderson

  • Glossary of fault and other fracture networks

    D.C.P. Peacock;C.W. Nixon;A. Rotevatn;D.J. Sanderson

  • Effects of layering and anisotropy on fault geometry

    D. C.P. Peacock;D. J. Sanderson

  • EVALUATION OF THE 2-D PERMEABILITY TENSOR FOR FRACTURED ROCK MASSES

    X. Zhang;D.J. Sanderson;R.M. Harkness

  • A fractal relationship between vein thickness and gold grade in drill core from La Codosera, Spain

    David J. Sanderson;Stephen Roberts;Pablo Gumiel

  • A Mohr circle construction for the opening of a pre-existing fracture

    R.J.H. Jolly;D.J. Sanderson

  • Spatial arrangement of faults and opening-mode fractures

    S.E. Laubach;J. Lamarche;B.D.M. Gauthier;W.M. Dunne

  • Numerical Modelling and Analysis of Fluid Flow and Deformation of Fractured Rock Masses

    Xing Zhang;David J. Sanderson

  • Pull-aparts, shear fractures and pressure solution

    D.C.P. Peacock;D.J. Sanderson

  • Strike-slip relay ramps

    D.C.P. Peacock;D.C.P. Peacock;D.J. Sanderson

  • Topology, connectivity and percolation in fracture networks

    David J. Sanderson;Casey W. Nixon

  • The transition from upright to recumbent folding in the Variscan fold belt of southwest England: a model based on the kinematics of simple shear

    D.J. Sanderson

  • Variscan Tectonics of the North Atlantic Region

    D. H. W. Hutton;D. J. Sanderson

  • Deformation of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks: Jones, M. E. & Preston, R. M. F. (editors) 1987. Geological Society of London Special Publication No. 29. Blackwell, London. 350 pp. Price £52.50

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Frequent Co-Authors

David C.P. Peacock
David C.P. Peacock University of Göttingen
Jonathan M. Bull
Jonathan M. Bull University of Southampton
Atle Rotevatn
Atle Rotevatn University of Bergen
Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts British Antarctic Survey
Geoffroy Lamarche
Geoffroy Lamarche National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Lidia Lonergan
Lidia Lonergan Imperial College London
Patience A. Cowie
Patience A. Cowie University of Bergen
John E. A. Marshall
John E. A. Marshall University of Southampton
Jenny S. Collier
Jenny S. Collier Imperial College London
Charles DeMets
Charles DeMets University of Wisconsin–Madison

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