Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-17-555-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-17-555-2026
Method article
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24 Mar 2026
Method article |  | 24 Mar 2026

Fatbox: the Fault Analysis Toolbox

Pauline Gayrin, Thilo Wrona, Sascha Brune, Derek Neuharth, Nicolas Molnar, Alessandro La Rosa, and John Naliboff

Data sets

Copernicus DEM - Global and European Digital Elevation Model Copernicus ESA https://doi.org/10.5270/ESA-c5d3d65

Model code and software

Fatbox, the fault analysis toolbox (1.1) Pauline Gayrin et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15716080

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Short summary
When in extension, the Earth's crust accommodates deformation by breaking. Through time, faults grow into an intricate network that can be detected by changes in topography, or through modelling (numerical or analogue). This study demonstrates how the Python library Fatbox, the Fault Analysis Toolbox, can extract the network pattern automatically from said datasets and measure the geometry and kinematics of the fault network.
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