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Author:

Rathbun, Andrew Paul

Title:

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FRICTIONAL AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SHEAR ZONES, WITH APPLICATION TO EARTHQUAKE FAULTS AND GLACIAL TILL

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Shear
Localization
Earthquakes
Friction

File:

Download ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

YEH, EN-CHAO

Title:

Structural evolution of slate belts: examples from Tawain and eastern Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Taiwan
tectonics
thermochronology
inclusion
kinematics
fold

File:

Download PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Derrill Maylon Kerrick, Committee Member

Author:

Alvarado, Freddy

Title:

DETERMINATION OF MECHANICAL AND HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR OF TENSILE FRACTURES UNDER MULTIPHASE FLOW USING X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

fracture aperture
Multiphase flow in fractures
confining stress

File:

Download Alvarado.pdf

Committee Members:

Abraham S Grader, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Faoro, Igor

Title:

CONTROL OF THE PERMEABILITY OF FRACTURES IN GEOTHERMAL ROCKS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

TCHM properties of fractures
permeability

File:

Download Igor_Faoro_thesis_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Samuelson, Jon Erik

Title:

LABORATORY MEASUREMENT OF SHEAR INDUCED FAULT ZONE DILATANCY, AND NUMERICAL ESTIMATION OF ITS INFLUENCE ON FRICTION CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS IN QUASI-UNDRAINED SCENARIOS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

friction
earthquake
dilatancy
fault zone
pore fluid pressure

File:

Download Jon_Samuelson_PhD_Thesis_Combined_2.0.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member

Author:

Taron, Joshua

Title:

Geophysical and Geochemical Analyses of Flow and Deformation in Fractured Rock

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

permeability
rock fracture
fractured reservoir simulation
geothermal
volcanic dome
chemical creep

File:

Download Taron_PhD_Thesis_December_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Barry Voight, Committee Member

Author:

Ikari, Matt

Title:

Compositional, mechanical, and hydrologic controls on fault slip behavior

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

faults
friction
earthquakes
clay minerals
permeability
subduction zones

File:

Download ikari_Phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eliza Richardson, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Andre Niemeijer, Committee Member

Author:

Foroozan, Roozbeh

Title:

TRANSPORT AND DEFORMATIONAL SIGNATURES IN COUPLED GEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: INSIGHTS FROM FOREWARD AND BACKWARD MODELING

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Fluid dynamics
Volcano
Basin
Fault
Geodesy
Back Analysis
GPS

File:

Download Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Voight, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Karpyn, Zuleima Tharays

Title:

Capillary-Driven Flow in Fractured Sandstone

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Capillarity
flow in fractures
imbibition
experiment
fracture aperture

File:

Download eTD_KARPYN_May2005.pdf

Committee Members:

Abraham S Grader, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Carpenter, Brett Matthew

Title:

Fault strength and stability: Lessons learned from the San Andreas Fault in central California

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

friction
fault mechanics
San Andreas Fault

File:

Download Carpenter_PhD_All.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Andre Niemeijer, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Shugang

Title:

Gas transport, sorption, and mechanical response of fractured coal

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Gas transport
sorption
desorption
poromechanical
coal

File:

Download Shugang_Wang_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member

Author:

Belvalkar, Rohan Anirrudha

Title:

Permeabilities of coal-biomass mixtures for high pressure gasifier feeds

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

permeability
porosity
kozeny-carmen
coal
biomass
gasifier
feed
particle size
stress
strain
isotropic
pulse decay

File:

Download thesis_r.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McGuire, Thomas Patrick

Title:

Permeability Evolution of Stressed Fractures Permeated by Reactive Fluids

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

fracture permeability evolution
pressure solution
stress corrosion cracking
carbon dioxide sequestration
fracture strain
fracture dissolution

File:

Download thomas_mcguire_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

Author:

Zoet, Lucas Keith

Title:

A Study of Discrete Glacier Motion

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Glaciology
glacial erosion
glacial sliding
unstable sliding
seismology

File:

Download lzoet-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Izadi, Ghazal

Title:

Evolution of Permeability and Induced Seismicity within Fractured Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

permeability Evolution
Induced Seismicity

File:

Download Ghazal_Izadi_PhD_Dissertation_Final5.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Hemant

Title:

Poromechanical Response of Naturally Fractured Sorbing Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal
Shale
Permeability
Proppant
Modeling
Simulation

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Kumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Denis Pone, Special Member

Author:

Kaproth, Bryan Michael

Title:

The evolution of fault strength, permeability, and acoustic properties in experimental studies from fault initiation through the seismic cycle

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Fault mechanics
Slow slip
Permeability
Fault strength
Fault fabric
Active seismic

File:

Download Kaproth_Thesis_July_13.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Eliza Richardson Marone, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member

Author:

Lauer, Rachel Mollie

Title:

Subduction zone hydrogeology: quantifying fluid sources, pathways and pressure

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

subduction zone
hydrogeology
earthquake mechanics

File:

Download RMLauer_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Special Member

Author:

Scuderi, Marco Maria

Title:

Mechanical properties of the seismogenic zone

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

earthquakes
friction
granular physics

File:

Download Scuderi_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris J Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Peter Christopher Lafemina, Committee Member
Eliza Richardson Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Huffman, Katelyn Allison

Title:

Understanding tectonic stress and rock strength in the Nankai Trough accretionary prism, offshore SW Japan

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Nankai Trough
in situ stress
unconfined compressive strength
borehole breakout
IODP
poroelastic FEM

File:

Download Huffman.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member

Author:

Leeman, John Robert

Title:

Laboratory Studies of Fault Stability and Slow Earthquakes

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

slow slip
earthquake
fault mechanics
rock mechanics
fault stability
ice stream

File:

Download dissertation_leeman.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Richard Alley, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Member

Author:

Im, Kyungjae

Title:

FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation

File:

Download Dissertation_KJ_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Madara, Benjamin James

Title:

Laboratory Studies of Permeability Evolution: Roles of Fracture, Shear, Dynamic Stressing, and Reservoir Rock Properties

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

permeability evolution
permeability
dynamic stressing
fracture
shear
permeability enhancement

File:

Download Dissertation_Madara.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Yu, Jiayi

Title:

Shear related reactivation of fractures/faults and the effects on permeability evolution and induced seismicity

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Induced seismicity
Unconventional shale reservoir
Fracture-proppant conductivity evolution

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Chris Marone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Major Field Member

Author:

Chen, Tsai Wei

Title:

The Record of Mass Transfer in Ancient Accretionary Prisms and Its Role in Fault Behavior

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

mélange
seismogenic zone
scaly fabric
mass transfer
ancient accretionary complex

File:

Download TChen_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Chris Marone, Major Field Member
Andrew Smye, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Donald Fisher, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Ziyan

Title:

Predicting Induced Seismicity and Permeability Evolution through Laboratory Experiments and Machine Learning Methods

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

induced seismicity
permeability evolution
machine learning method
frictional behavior of fractures

File:

Download Ziyan-Dissertation2.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Major Field Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair