Laboratory observations of frictional stability and fault zone evolution under heterogeneous friction, rheology, and stress conditions

Sara Beth Leach Cebry1, Chun-Yu Ke1, Srisharan Shreedharan2, Chris Marone3, David S Kammer4 and Gregory Mclaskey1, (1)Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (4)ETH, Institute for Building Materials, Zurich, Switzerland