Selected Recent Publications on Fracture in the Earth (> 120 papers since 1973)

Engelder, T., 2004, Tectonic implications drawn from differences in the surface morphology on two joint sets in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge, Virginia : Geology, v. 32, p. 413-416.

Engelder, T., and Peacock, D., 2001, Joint development normal to regional compression during flexural-slow folding: The Lilstock buttress anticline, Somerset, England: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 23, p. 259-277.

Engelder, T., and Fischer, M.P., 1996, Loading configurations and driving mechanisms for joints based on the Griffith energy-balance concept: Tectonophysics, v. 256 , p. 253-277.

Engelder, T., Gross, M.R., and Pinkerton, P., 1997, Joint development in clastic rocks of the Elk Basin anticline, Montana-Wyoming: in Hoak, T., Klawitter, A., and Blomquist, P., eds., An analysis of fracture spacing versus bed thickness in a basement-involved Laramide structure: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists 1997 Guidebook, Denver, Colorado, p. 1-18.

McConaughy, D.T., and Engelder, T., 2001, Joint initiation in bedded clastic rocks: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 23, p. 203-221.

McConaughy, D.T., Engelder, T., 2000. Joint interaction with embedded concretions: Joint loading configurations inferred from propagation paths. Journal of Structural Geology, v. 21, p. 1637-1652.

Rogers, C.M., Myers, D.A., and Engelder, T., 2004, Kinematic implications of joint zones and isolated joints in the Navajo Sandstone at Zion National Park: Evidence for Cordilleran relaxation: Tectonics, v. 23, TC1007, doi:10.1029/2001TC001329.

Ruf, J.C., Rust, K.A., and Engelder, T., 1998, Investigating the effect of mechanical discontinuities on joint spacing: Tectonophysics, v. 295, p. 245-257.

Scanlin, M.A., and Engelder, T., 2003 , The basement versus the no-basement hypothesis for folding within the Appalachian Plateau Detachment Sheet: American Journal of Science, v. 303, p. 519-563

Silliphant, L.J., Engelder, T., and Gross, M.R., 2002, The state of stress in the limb of the Split Mountain Anticline, Utah: constraints placed by transected joints: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 24, p. 155-172.

Younes, A., and Engelder, T., 1999, Fringe cracks: Key structures for the interpretation of progressive Alleghanian deformation of the Appalachian Plateau: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 219-239.