Ugh. Academic marketing groups can be just as ridiculous as corporate marketing groups. The modeling device happens to be about the size of a kitchen sink, it isn't an actual kitchen sink.
Here I was, reading the headline, thinking a hungover geologist was getting a morning glass of water at their newly installed stone sink and had a eureka moment. Reality is so disappointing.
I was imagining a granite/stone kitchen sink that somehow showed information about the fault line it was taken from. Sigh.