Beser, P. C., and Chester, F. M., Experimental study of fracture development in multilayers of contrasting strength and ductility, submitted to J. Struct. Geol., 2005. preprint
Chester, F. M., Chester, J. S., Kronenberg, A. K., and Hajash, A., Subcritical Creep Compaction of Quartz Sand at Diagenetic Conditions: Effects of Water and Grain Size, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2005. preprint
Nieto, J. E., Jensen, J. L., Chester, F. M., and Johnson, B., Analysis of fault permeability structure through detailed mapping and numerical flow modeling, submitted to Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2005.
Karner, S. L., Chester, J. S., Kronenberg, A. K., and Chester, F. M., Strength of quartz sand and grain size mixing, submitted to Geotechnique, 2005.
Chester, J. S., Chester, F. M., and Kronenberg, A. K., Fracture surface energy of the Punchbowl fault, San Andreas system, Nature, 437, 133-136, 2005. pdf
Karner, S. L., Chester, F. M., and Chester, J. S., Towards a general state-variable constitutive relation to describe granular deformation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 237, 940-950, 2005. pdf
Karner, S. L., Chester, J. S., Chester, F. M., Kronenberg, A. K., and Hajash, A., Laboratory deformation of granular quartz sand: Implications for the burial of clastic rocks, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 89, 603-625, 2005. pdf
Ramsey, J. M., and Chester, F. M., Hybrid fracture and the transition from extension fracture to shear fracture, Nature, 428, 63-66, 2004. pdf
Chester, J. S., Lenz, S., Chester, F. M., and Lang, R. A., Mechanisms of compaction of quartz sand at diagenetic conditions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 220, 435-451, 2004. pdf
Chester, F. M., J. S. Chester, D. L. Kirschner, S. E. Schulz, and J. P. Evans, Structure of large-displacement strike-slip fault zones in the brittle continental crust, In: Karner, G. D., B. Taylor, N. W. Driscoll, and D. L. Kohlstedt (eds.), Rheology and Deformation in the Lithosphere at Continental Margins, Columbia University Press, New York, (MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Earth Science Series 1), 223-260, 2004. pdf
Karner, S. L., Chester, F. M., Kronenberg, A. K., and Chester, J. S., Subcritical compaction and yielding of granular quartz sand, Tectonophysics, 377, 357-381, 2003. pdf
Wilson, J. E., Chester, J. S., Chester, F. M., Microfracture analysis of fault growth and wear processes, Punchbowl fault, San Andreas system, California, J. Struct. Geol, 25, 1855-1873, 2003. pdf
Li, Y.-G., F. M. Chester, and J. E. Vidale, Shallow seismic profiling of the exhumed Punchbowl fault zone, southern California, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 91, 1820-1830, 2001. pdf
Chester, F. M., and J. S. Chester, Stress and deformation along wavy frictional faults, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 23,421-23,430, 2000. pdf
Chester, F. M., Field guide to the Punchbowl fault zone at Devil's Punchbowl Los Angeles County Park, California, electronic publication available here, 1999.
Chester, F. M., and J. S. Chester, Ultracataclasite structure and friction processes of the Punchbowl fault, San Andreas system, California, Tectonophysics, 295, 199-221, 1998. pdf
Chester, F. M., Cataclastic to crystal-plastic transition in halite shear zones, in Fault-Related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas, edited by A. W. Snoke, J. A. Tullis, and V. R. Todd, Princeton University Press, 617 p., 1998.
Chester, F. M., and J. P. Evans, Micro-scale vein mineralization and porphyroclast development in low-grade cataclasites, San Gabriel fault, California, U.S.A., in Fault-Related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas, edited by A. W. Snoke, J. A. Tullis, and V. R. Todd, Princeton University Press, 617 p., 1998.
Chester, F. M., and J. M. Logan, Shear band fabric in gouge, Punchbowl fault, California, U.S.A., in Fault-Related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas, edited by A. W. Snoke, J. A. Tullis, and V. R. Todd, Princeton University Press, 617 p., 1998.
Magloughlin, J., F. M. Chester, and J. Spray, Penrose Conference Report: Fine grained fault rocks, GSA Today, 6, n. 4, 33-37, 1996 (extended version available here).
Chester, F. M., A rheologic model for wet crust applied to strike-slip faults, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 13033-13044, 1995. pdf
Evans, J. P., and F. M. Chester, Fluid-rock interaction in faults of the San Andreas system: Inferences from San Gabriel fault rock geochemistry and microstructures, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 13007-13020, 1995. pdf
Chester, F. M., Effects of temperature on friction: constitutive equations and experiments with quartz gouge, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 7247-7261, 1994. pdf
Chester, F. M., J. P. Evans, and R. L. Biegel, Internal Structure and Weakening Mechanisms of the San Andreas Fault, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 771-786, 1993. pdf
Chester, F. M., and N. G. Higgs, Multimechanism friction constitutive model for ultrafine quartz gouge at hypocentral conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 1859-1870, 1992. pdf
Chester, J. S., and F. M. Chester, Fault-propagation folds above thrusts with constant dip, J. Struct. Geol., 12, 903-910, 1990. pdf
Chester, F. M., and J. M. Logan, Frictional faulting in polycrystalline halite: correlation of microstructure, mechanisms of slip and constitutive behavior, in The Brittle-Ductile Transition in Rocks: The Heard Volume, edited by A. G. Duba et al., Am. Geophys. Union Geophys. Monogr., 56, 49-65, 1990. pdf
Chester, F. M., Dynamic recrystallization in semi-brittle faults, J. Struct. Geol., 11, 847-858, 1989. pdf
Chester, F. M., The brittle-ductile transition in a deformation-mechanism map for halite, Tectonophysics, 154, 125-136, 1988. pdf
Chester, F. M., and J. M. Logan, Composite planar fabric of gouge from the Punchbowl fault, California, J. Struct. Geol., 9, 621-634, 1987. pdf
Chester, F. M., and J. M. Logan, Implications for mechanical properties of brittle faults from observations of the Punchbowl fault zone, California, Pure Appl. Geophys., 124, 79-106, 1986. pdf
Chester, F. M., M. Friedman, and J. M. Logan, Foliated cataclasites, Tectonophysics, 111, 139-146, 1985. pdf