Dr Mia Perry | TedX Interview
Dr Mia Perry, SFA Co-Director, is interviewed at TedX Glasgow about the Sustainable Futures in Africa Network.
At TedX Glasgow the SFA Network brought a snapshot of its work to the event; this includes a public poll which questioned the approach that we take on research sustainability, engaging with the binary choice of ‘Giving v.s. changing your own practice?’ In this interview, Mia discusses the SFA’s work on collaboration across knowledge systems, exemplifying our work as ‘a community member working with an academic’. As SFA is a network focusing on ‘methodologies’, Mia shares how it is important to be able to share what that means in ‘real life terms’ which is at the heart of TedX – world changing ideas made accessible; she described the event as giving her a sense of ‘enthusiasm, motivation, passion and integrity’.
“More and more we realize that if we made good decisions about sustainability here in Glasgow, our colleagues in Africa would have half as many problems to deal with.”
Publication: Modelling of Extension and Dyking-Induced Collapse Faults and Fissures in Rifts
This publication is an output of the research conducted by SFA researchers in Uganda on ‘Understanding the structure, permeability and activity of faults in and around the Rwenzori mountains, Albertine rift system’
Koehn, D., Steiner, A. and Aanyu, K. (2018). Modelling of extension and dyking-induced collapse faults and fissures in rifts. Journal of Structural Geology, 118, pp.21-31.
HIGHLIGHTS
- This contribution presents modelling of fissures and faults in rifts induced by extension and dyking.
- Faults nucleate as hybrid shear surfaces and migrate upwards as fissures and downwards as shear fractures.
- Dyking tends to localize faults on top of dykes and produces narrow vertical collapse structures.
- Collapse structures are rhomboid blocks that form along conjugate fault sets and move down with normal and reverse sense.
- The most localized collapse structures develop on top of thin and shallowly intruding dykes.
For more information, you can find the publication by using the DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.09.017