Publications by Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer

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

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

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

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

A new high-pressure high-temperature deformation apparatus to study the brittle to ductile transition in rocks

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer, Mateo Alejandro Acosta, Henri Joseph François Gilles Leclère

Understanding the micro-mechanisms underlying the localized-ductile transition (LDT) as well as the brittle-plastic transition (BPT) has become crucial for our wider understanding of crustal processes and seismicity. Given how difficult in situ observation ...

2023

Bounding the localized to ductile transition in porous rocks: implications for geo-reservoirs

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer

Porous rocks have long been the focus of intense research driven by their importance in our society as host to our most essential resources (oil, gas, water, geothermal energy, etc), yet their rheology remains poorly understood. With increasing depth, poro ...

2023

The Permeability of Porous Volcanic Rock Through the Brittle-Ductile Transition

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Corentin Jean-Marie Rémi Noël, Gabriel Gérard Dominique Meyer, Michael Heap

The permeability of volcanic rock controls the distribution of pore fluids and pore fluid pressure within a volcanic edifice, and is therefore considered to influence eruptive style and volcano deformation. We measured the porosity and permeability of a po ...

2022