Christopher H. Scholz

Special Research Scientist, Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental at Science and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
228 Seismology 61 Route 9W PO Box 1000 Palisades, NY 10964 USA

BIOGRAPHY:

I joined the research staff at LDEO in 1968 and was Appointed Associate Professor in 1973 and Professor in 1977. I study the brittle deformation of the earth, both on the short term: earthquake physics, and the long term: fault mechanics. My work includes experimental rock mechanics, field studies of faulting, and theoretical studies. I have co-authored with students and colleagues over 300 papers on these subjects, and am the author of the leading treatise in this field, now in its third edition: The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting, 3rd ed. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Earlier editions were translated into Japanese and Chinese.

I am a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and have been awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society (London) and the Harry Fielding Reid Medal of the Seismological Society of America.

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Only select publications listed below

Name	Published Date
Do Subducted Seamounts act as Weak Asperities?	2023
The Shear Deformation Zone and the Smoothing of Faults With Displacement	2021
What Comes First, the Fault or the Ductile Shear Zone?	2021
Persistent ﬁne-scale fault structure and rupture development: A new twist in the Parkﬁeld, California, story	2019
The Brittle‐Ductile Transition Predicted by a Physics‐Based Friction Law	2019
The mechanism of tidal triggering of earthquakes at mid-ocean ridges	2019
A Physics‐Based Rock Friction Constitutive Law: Steady State Friction	2017
On the stress dependence of the earthquake b value	2015
Microfractures: A review	2014
The Rupture Mode of the Shallow Large‐Slip Surge of the Tohoku‐Oki Earthquake	2014
The seismic coupling of subduction zones revisited	2012
First-order splay faults: dip-slip examples	2011
Large Earthquake Triggering, Clustering, and the Synchronization of Faults	2010
The mechanics of first order splay faulting: The strike-slip case	2010
Triggered aseismic fault slip from nearby earthquakes, static or dynamic effect?	2003
Transition regimes for growing crack populations	2002
Slip-length scaling in large earthquakes' Observations and theory and implications for earthquake physics	2001
Experimental Evidence for Different Strain Regimes of Crack Populations in a Clay Model	1999

PUBLICATIONS

Transition regimes for growing crack populations, Spyropoulos, C.; Scholz, C. H.; Shaw, B. E. , Physical Review E, May, Volume 65, Issue 5, p.-, (2002), Doi 10.1103/Physreve.65.056105

The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting, 2nd ed, Scholz, C.H., (2002)

Earthquakes and friction laws, Scholz, C. H., Nature, 391(6662), 37-42 (1998)

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Christopher H. Scholz

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PUBLICATIONS