Research and Publications

Research Interests and Methodology

Professor Pollard's research aims to understand how faults and fractures initiate and evolve in Earth's brittle crust; how they affect the flow of molten rock, groundwater, and hydrocarbons; and how they participate in earthquake generation, folding of sedimentary strata, and volcanic eruption. He uses quantitative field data and the principles of structural geology, combined with computer modeling based on continuum and fracture mechanics, to address fundamental questions about the processes of faulting and fracturing. Our understanding of the geologic structures created by these processes plays an important role in managing resource recovery and in the mitigation of natural hazards.

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