Geophysics
Interaction of corrugated steel plates with surrounding soil medium causes the investigation of seismic behavior of soil-steel structures to be complicated. Reviewing the available literature confirms the considerable scarceness in this…
Geoneutrino observations, first achieved by KamLAND in 2005 and followed by Borexino in 2010, have accumulated statistics and improved sensitivity for more than ten years. The uncertainty of the geoneutrino flux at the surface is now…
Knowledge of the seismological signature of serpentinites during deformation is fundamental for interpreting seismic observations in subduction zones, but this has yet to be experimentally constrained. We measured compressional and shear…
As aqueous model ice is used extensively in ice tanks tests on the performance of ship hulls in sheet ice, it is imperative that such model ice replicate the main flexural strength behavior of sheets of sea ice and freshwater ice. Ice tanks…
Multiple scattering of seismic waves is often seen as a nightmare for conventional migration techniques that generally rely on a ballistic or a single scattering assumption. In heterogeneous areas such as volcanoes, the multiple scattering…
Despite the complexity of wave propagation in anisotropic media, reflection moveout on conventional common-midpoint (CMP) spreads is usually well described by the normal-moveout (NMO) velocity defined in the zero-spread limit. In their…
The evolution of $V_\mathrm{P}/V_\mathrm{S}$ with increasing fluid-saturated porosity is computed for isotropic rocks containing spheroidal pores. $V_\mathrm{P}/V_\mathrm{S}$ is shown to either decrease or increase with increasing porosity,…
The efficiency of thermal pressurisation as a dynamic weakening mechanism relies on the thermal and hydraulic properties of the rocks forming the fault core. Here, we assess the effectiveness of thermal pressurisation by comparing…
One of the most intriguing features of Earth's axial magnetic dipole field, well-known from the geological record, is its occasional and unpredictable reversal of polarity. Understanding the phenomenon is rendered very difficult by the…
In this paper, we examine the applicability of the approximation, $\overline{f\,g}\approx \overline f\,\overline g\,$, within Backus (1962) averaging. This approximation is a crucial step in the method proposed by Backus (1962), which is…
Detecting a specific horizon in seismic images is a valuable tool for geological interpretation. Because hand-picking the locations of the horizon is a time-consuming process, automated computational methods were developed starting three…
We investigate the distribution of major and trace elements in apatite crystals hosted in granular alkaline rocks composed mainly of leucite and clinopyroxene, representative of the hypabyssal crystallization of a magma body in the…
In recent years researchers in oil-gas industry have established that the contribution of memory is significant for the modeling of fluid flow in unconventional reservoirs. Mathematically, a memory-based fluid flow model can be described by…
The Campi Flegrei caldera (southern Italy) is one of the most hazardous volcanic systems on Earth, having produced >60 eruptions in the past 15 ka. The caldera remains active and its potential for future eruptions is high, posing a danger…
The pressure, temperature, and timing (PTt) conditions at which CO2 was produced during the Himalayan prograde metamorphism have been constrained, focusing on the most abundant calcsilicate rock type in the Himalaya. A detailed petrological…
The occurrence of metavolcanic rocks within the Paleozoic basement of the Alpi Apuane metamorphic complex has been known since long time. Among them, some massive porphyritic tourmaline-bearing rocks cropping out in the southern sector of…
We present new experimental data on major and trace element partition coefficients between alkali feldspar and trachytic melt. Experiments were conducted at 500 MPa, 870 890 {\deg}C to investigate through short disequilibrium and long near…
The deformation-related energy budget is usually considered in the simplest form or even completely omitted from the energy balance equation. We derive a full energy balance equation that accounts not only for heat energy but also for…
This study aims to simplify the current flood mapping methodology, so it can be done in quicker time, easy to learn, but still produce accurate flood information to support the emergency responses. This study is divided into two activities:…
The initiation and development of fractures in rocks is the key part of many problems from academic to industrial, such as faulting, folding, rock mass engineering, reservoir characterization, etc. Conventional ways of evaluating the…