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Compared to smooth faults, injection-induced slip on rough faults produces spatially localized clusters of Acoustic Emissions occurring around highly stressed asperities.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Eco mingled with Milanese avant-garde writers, musicians and painters, and developed a love for late James Joyce, the atonal asperities of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the impenetrable symbolist verse of late Mallarmé.

From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2016

Dawkins’s bracing asperities are now routinely met in kind: ‘Puffed up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant’ was one columnist’s string of adjectives for him.

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2015

During such an event, the 1938 asperities and the M7.9 aftershock rupture area could experience much greater slip than has been documented for previous events, similar to what just occurred offshore Miyagi.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 16, 2011

In some cases the road from Guttanen to the Grimsel lay right over the polished rocks, asperities being supplied by the chisel of man in order to prevent travellers from slipping on their slopes.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John