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Renard et al. 2006
Renard, F., Voisin, C., Marsan, D. and Schmittbuhl, J. (2006). High resolution 3D laser scanner measurements of a strike-slip fault quantify its morphological anisotropy at all scales. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2005GL025038. issn: 0094-8276.

The surface roughness of a recently exhumed strike-slip fault plane has been measured by three independent 3D portable laser scanners. Digital elevation models of several fault surface areas, from 1 m2 to 600 m2, have been measured at a resolution ranging from 5 mm to 80 mm. Out of plane height fluctuations are described by non-Gaussian distribution with exponential long range tails. Statistical scaling analyses show that the striated fault surface exhibits self-affine scaling invariance with a small but significant directional morphological anisotropy that can be described by two scaling roughness exponents, H1 = 0.7 in the direction of slip and H2 = 0.8 perpendicular to the direction of slip.

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Keywords
Seismology, Earthquake dynamics, Structural Geology, Fractures and faults, Tectonophysics, Rheology and friction of fault zones, Tectonophysics, Dynamics and mechanics of faulting
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Geophysical Research Letters
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