Publications related to Earth's crust

Fluid flow through microcracked and fractured granitic reservoirs

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Lucille Jocelyne Nadine Carbillet, Michael Heap

The permeability of crustal rocks and rock-masses dictates the efficiency of hydrothermal circulation and therefore the productivity of geothermal resources. In this study, we find by monitoring P-wave velocity that thermal microcracking in Lanhélin granit ...

2023

On the Scale Dependence in the Dynamics of Frictional Rupture

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Mathias Alexandre David Lebihain, François Xavier Thibault Passelègue, Federica Paglialunga

When an earthquake nucleates in the earth crust, the potential energy accumulated during the inter-seismic period is released into breakdown work, heat energy and radiated energy. Often the breakdown work is considered a seismological equivalent of the fra ...

2021

Modeling the Shape Evolution of Selective Area Grown Zn3P2 Nanoislands

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Vladimir Dubrovskii, Rajrupa Paul

Selective area growth of zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) on InP provides a pathway to high-quality semiconductor nanostructures and textured thin films made of earth-abundant elements. In the precoalescence stage, Zn3P2 emerges in the form of nanoislands undergoing ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

PyFrac: A planar 3D hydraulic fracture simulator

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia

Fluid driven fractures propagate in the upper earth crust either naturally or in response to engineeredfluid injections. The quantitative prediction of their evolution is critical in order to better understandtheir dynamics as well as to optimize their cre ...

2020

Fault Stability Across the Seismogenic Zone

François Xavier Thibault Passelègue

Across the seismogenic zone, the transition from brittle to plastic deformation corresponds to a semibrittle regime where brittle fracturing and plastic flow coexist at high strength conditions. Thorough experimental investigations on brittle-plastic trans ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2020

Fully-coupled 3D modelling of magmatic dike Propagation – finite pulse release from a point source

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Andreas Möri, Haseeb Zia

Magmatic dikes are a naturally occurring type of fluid-driven fractures [1] propagating in the lithosphere driven by buoyancy (more precisely by the difference between the in-situ minimum horizontal stress gradient and the magma weight). Fully-coupled mode ...

2020

On the scaling between precursory moment release and earthquake magnitude: Insights from the laboratory

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, François Xavier Thibault Passelègue, Mateo Alejandro Acosta

Recent seismological observations highlighted that both aseismic silent slip and/or foreshock sequences can precede large earthquake ruptures (Tohoku-Oki, 2011, Mw 9.0 (Kato et al., 2012); Iquique, 2014, Mw 8.1 (Ruiz et al, 2014; Socquet et al., 2017); Ill ...

2020

Origin of the Temporal Evolution of Elastic Properties During Laboratory Seismic Cycle

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, François Xavier Thibault Passelègue, Mateo Alejandro Acosta, Federica Paglialunga

Recent seismological observations highlighted that earthquakes are associated to drops in elastic properties around the fault zone (Brenguier et al., 2008). This drop is often attributed to co-seismic damage produced at the rupture tip, and can mostly be o ...

2020

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Earth's crust

Fluid flow through microcracked and fractured granitic reservoirs

On the Scale Dependence in the Dynamics of Frictional Rupture

On the effects of fluid pressure variations on rock-mass and fault mechanical behaviour

Modeling the Shape Evolution of Selective Area Grown Zn3P2 Nanoislands

PyFrac: A planar 3D hydraulic fracture simulator

Fault Stability Across the Seismogenic Zone

Fully-coupled 3D modelling of magmatic dike Propagation – finite pulse release from a point source

Geometrical control of fluid flow through single carbonate fracture

On the scaling between precursory moment release and earthquake magnitude: Insights from the laboratory

Origin of the Temporal Evolution of Elastic Properties During Laboratory Seismic Cycle

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Geometrical control of fluid flow through single carbonate fracture

Fully-coupled 3D modelling of magmatic dike Propagation – finite pulse release from a point source

On the scaling between precursory moment release and earthquake magnitude: Insights from the laboratory

PyFrac: A planar 3D hydraulic fracture simulator

Modeling the Shape Evolution of Selective Area Grown Zn3P2 Nanoislands

Origin of the Temporal Evolution of Elastic Properties During Laboratory Seismic Cycle

On the Scale Dependence in the Dynamics of Frictional Rupture

Fault Stability Across the Seismogenic Zone