Publications by Marie Estelle Solange Violay

Fluid Chemistry Effect on Localized and Ductile Deformation of a Porous Sandstone

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer, Francesco Lazari

In geological reservoirs, pore fluid chemistry can affect rock strength by inducing mineral dissolution, precipitation, and alteration, among other processes. Increasing pressure and temperature can shift deformation from localized to ductile, decreasing p ...

2025

How Stress Biaxiality Controls Crack Morphology and Apparent Fracture Energy of Dikes and Sills

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Antoine Guggisberg

The emplacement of dikes and sills plays a crucial role in crustal mechanics. The parameter used to describe their resistance to propagation, fracture energy, remains controversial. Here, we show how different stress biaxiality levels experienced by dikes ...

2025

Alteration's Control on Frictional Behavior and the Depth of the Ductile Shear Zone in Geothermal Reservoirs in Volcanic Arcs

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer, Barnaby Padraig Fryer, Florian Till Jermann

The majority of geothermal energy is produced in tectonically active volcanic-arc regions due to their high geothermal gradients. Reservoirs in these settings are often stratified with smectite/kaolinite-, illite-, and chlorite-rich zones, in order of incr ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2025

The Influence of Micro- and Macrocracks on the Permeability of Granite

Marie Estelle Solange Violay

Damage zones exist around crustal faults, where micro- and macrocracks coexist and form a complex conduit network for fluid flow. The permeability of these zones can change rapidly as the crack network evolves during deformation. To investigate the relativ ...

SPRINGER WIEN2024

Permeability partitioning through the brittle-to-ductile transition and its implications for supercritical geothermal reservoirs

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer

Geothermal projects utilizing supercritical water (≥400 °C) could boost power output tenfold compared to conventional plants. However, these reservoirs commonly occur in crustal areas where rocks are semi-ductile or ductile, impeding large-scale fractures ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Water weakening and the compressive brittle strength of carbonates: Influence of fracture toughness and static friction

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Corentin Jean-Marie Rémi Noël, Barnaby Padraig Fryer

Water is ubiquitous within the pore space of rocks and has been shown to affect their physical and mechanical behaviour. Indeed, water can act on the rock strength via mechanical (i.e., reducing the effective stresses) or chemical effects (e.g., mineral di ...

2024

Off-fault deformation feedback and strain localization precursor during laboratory earthquakes

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer, Simon Guérin-Marthe, Carolina Giorgetti

Recent large-scale seismological observations have shown that off-fault strain localization and foreshock migration could serve as an early warning of an impending earthquake. However, this process is still largely unknown. In this study, state-of-the-art ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Compaction and Permeability Evolution of Tuffs From Krafla Volcano (Iceland)

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Alexandra Roma Larisa Kushnir, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer, Francesco Lazari

Pressure and stress perturbations associated with volcanic activity and geothermal production can modify the porosity and permeability of volcanic rock, influencing hydrothermal convection, the distribution of pore fluids and pressures, and the ease of mag ...

American Geophysical Union (AGU)2024

Frictional weakening leads to unconventional singularities during dynamic rupture propagation

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

Earthquakes i.e. frictional ruptures, are commonly described by singular solutions of shear crack motions. These solutions assume a square root singularity order around the rupture tip and a constant shear stress value behind it, implying scale-independent ...

2024

Influence of Viscous Lubricant on Nucleation and Propagation of Frictional Ruptures

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, François Xavier Thibault Passelègue, Federica Paglialunga

Fluids are pervasive in the Earth's crust and saturate fractures and faults. The combination of fluids and gouge layers developing along faults can generate fluids of different viscosities. Such viscous fluids were found to influence the reactivation, fric ...

2023