“…Although dry sand has many benefits as an analog for modeling crustal processes (e.g., strain-rate independence, well-constrained properties, and ease of use; Ritter et al, 2016Ritter et al, , 2018Schreurs et al, 2016;Reber et al, 2020), its low cohesion compared to wet kaolin favors the growth of new faults over fault reactivation (e.g., Eisenstadt and Sims, 2005;Cooke et al, 2013). The properties of wet kaolin that produce long-lived faults are particularly important for modeling the evolution of fault systems; the abandonment and reactivation of individual fault segments in scaled physical experiments approximate the fault evolution in the crust (e.g., Clifton et al, 2000;Ackermann et al, 2001;Schlische et al, 2002;Eisenstadt and Sims, 2005;Henza et al, 2010;e.g., Hatem et al, 2015e.g., Hatem et al, , 2017Bonini et al, 2016;Bonanno et al, 2017;Toeneboehn et al, 2018).…”