Espinosa-Marzal Team (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Espinosa-Marzal Team

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Civil and environmental engineering professor Rosa Espinosa-Marzal, left, and graduate student Yijue Diao used nanoscale techniques to study earthquake dynamics and found that, under the right conditions, some rocks dissolve and may cause faults to slip.

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Photo by Joyce Seay-Knoblauch

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