Comment on “Stress and fault parameters affecting fault slip magnitude and activation time during a glacial cycle” by Steffen et al.

Reply to comment by Hampel et al. on “Stress and fault parameters affecting fault slip magnitude and activation time during a glacial cycle”

“…Hampel et al . [, hereinafter Ha15] recently commented on our study [ Steffen et al , ], which investigates the effect of stress and fault parameters on fault slip magnitude and activation time during a glacial cycle using a newly developed two‐dimensional glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA)‐fault model [ Steffen et al , ]. In summary, Ha15 criticize the following parts of our study stating “ (1) that Steffen et al [] describe our modeling approach in a misleading way, (2) that they do not mention the specific results (e.g., regarding the amount and timing of fault slip) of our studies anywhere in their article despite the similarity of the topic of their article, and (3) that the content and layout of Steffen et al's Figure 1 closely resembles two figures previously published in our studies but they do not cite the source (they, however, introduced conceptual errors concerning the glacial‐interglacial stress evolution into their figure) .”…”