UI Geological Sciences

PhD, Geological and Environmental Sciences, 1998—Stanford University
MS, Geology, 1994—University of Akron
BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, Geology, 1990, 1991, 1994—University of Natal, Durban, South Africa

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Structural Geology: Fault and Fracture Mechanics
Tectonics of Oblique Spreading Ridges
Planetary Geology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Groenleer, J.M., Kattenhorn, S.A. 2008. Cycloid crack sequences on Europa: Relationship to stress history and constraints on growth mechanics based on cusp angles. Icarus 193, 158-181.
Kattenhorn, S.A., Schaefer, C.J. 2008. Thermal-mechanical modeling of cooling history and fracture development in inflationary basalt lava flows. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 170, 181-197.
Clifton, A.E., Kattenhorn, S.A. 2006. Structural architecture of a highly oblique divergent plate boundary segment. Tectonophysics 419, 27-40.
Kattenhorn, S.A., Marshall, S.T. 2006. Fault-induced perturbed stress fields and associated tensile and compressive deformation at fault tips in the ice shell of Europa: Implications for fault mechanics. Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 2204-2221.
Billings, S.E., Kattenhorn, S.A. 2005. The great thickness debate: Ice shell thickness models for Europa and comparisons with estimates based on flexure at ridges. Icarus 177, 397-412.
Marshall, S.T., Kattenhorn, S.A. 2005. A revised model for cycloid growth mechanics on Europa: Evidence from surface morphologies and geometries. Icarus 177, 341-366.
Grant, J.V., Kattenhorn, S.A. 2004. Evolution of vertical faults at an extensional plate boundary, southwest Iceland. Journal of Structural Geology 26, 537-557.
Kattenhorn, S.A. 2004. Strike-slip fault evolution on Europa: evidence from tailcrack geometries. Icarus 172, 582-602.
Schaefer, C.J., Kattenhorn, S.A. 2004. Characterization and evolution of fractures in low-volume pahoehoe lava flows, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. GSA Bulletin 116, 322-336.

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