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Douglas R. Schmitt

Editor, JGR: Solid Earth

Scanning electron microscope images of an underformed and a deformed ice sample that clearly show differences in grain sizes.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Ice on a Deadline: More Stress Makes Ice Move Faster

by Nikolai Bagdassarov and Douglas R. Schmitt 19 October 202115 October 2021

Anyone seeing photographs of glacier and ice sheets from above clearly sees that they flow; recent laboratory tests on ice further reveal the conditions that control just how fast this happens.

Figure showing the fault damage halo and linking damage zones between fault cores
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Fluctuating Fluid Flows in a Fractured Fault

by Douglas R. Schmitt 10 August 20206 October 2021

Fault damage zones can focus fluid transport near faults.

Snapshot of particle velocities observed in the direction of the fault 69.5 microseconds after nucleation
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Ultrahigh Speed Movies Catch Growing Earthquake Ruptures

by Douglas R. Schmitt 1 May 20206 October 2021

Comparing successive frames from ultrahigh speed videos of propagating fractures allowed laboratory researchers for the first time to capture the fine details of of a propagating earthquake rupture.

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Developments in the Study of Rock Physics

by L. Adam and Douglas R. Schmitt 9 January 20171 October 2021

AGU/SEG Joint Workshop on Upper Crust Physics of Rocks; Hilo, Hawaii, 11–14 July 2016

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