News
22.01.2019
NUGGED Seminar by Dan Mircea Tămaș
On Thursday (January 24, 12:00) Dan Mircea Tămaș from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania will give a talk about 'Salt tectonics in the Eastern Carpathian Bend Zone, Romania: insights from analogue modelling.'
This is a brown-bag seminar, you are invited to bring your lunch to the talks.When: Thursday, January 24, 12:00
Where: Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, 4th floor, room 408
09.01.2019
NUGGED Seminar by Derya Gürer
On Thursday, January 10, Derya Gürer from The University of Queensland, Australia, will give a talk about 'In-situ U-Pb ages of multiple generations of calcite fabrics related to the Ivriz Detachment, Central Anatolia' in our NUGGED seminar series. Please joint the talk at 12:00 in room 408 (Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A)
12.11.2018
A new global Erodibility Index
How erodible are different rock types? A new global study shows loose sediments erode 3.2 times faster than granite. Check out the full story here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622817306859?dgcid=coauthor
16.05.2018
Oman Mountains - new paper in Tectonics
Our new paper on the Oman Mountains is published in Tectonics. It even made it to the cover. Check it out here:https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016TC004442
19.02.2018
Boudinage on Naxos - 2 papers back to back
Naxos boudinage untangled - check out our two papers.
#1: Virgo et al. in SolidEarth - the big picture. Available here (open access): https://www.solid-earth.net/9/91/2018/se-9-91-2018.html
#2: von Hagke et al. in Journal of Structural Geology - outcrop scale tomography. Preprint available here: https://t.co/cBinMgSAgT
07.11.2017
Triangle zones and their uncertainties
– a discussion of these fascinating structures is now published in Earth Science Reviews. Check it out here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825217302866
05.10.2017
Part 2 of the shale detachment review came out:
Review of major shale-dominated detachment and thrust characteristics in the diagenetic zone: Part II, rock mechanics and microscopic scale
Check it out here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825217302891
24.08.2017
Our review paper on shale detachments (Part 1) was published in Earth Science Reviews. Check it out here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001282521730288X
23.08.2017
Our paper on boudins in Naxos is published in SolidEarth Discussions. Check it out here:
https://www.solid-earth-discuss.net/se-2017-91/
and feel free to leave a comment!
https://www.solid-earth-discuss.net/se-2017-91/
and feel free to leave a comment!
08.06.2017
PhD Position in Tectonics available
We have an opening for a PhD position studying the tectonics of the Alps. The project forms part of the German Priority Program 4D-MB: Mountain Building Processes in 4-Dimensions and will explore how processes of the mantle, crust and surface interact to form moutains during the collision of tectonic plates. You will work in a consortium of 22 interdisciplinary projects (check out details on the program here).Details on the position can be found here
Please apply until July 15th 2017
18.05.2017
We welcome Humboldt Fellow Prof. Manish A. Mamtani from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur as a visiting scientist until June 2017!
05.04.2017
A few weeks ago a group of 4th graders from the KGS Hanbruch primary school visited us and spent an exciting morning learning about moving plates, looking into micro and nano structure of rocks at the SEM and creating their own small faults in the analogue lab.
Check out the pics: here
Check out the pics: here
04.11.2016
Friday we will have two Seminars:
12 h Olivier Galland (University of Oslo) is talking about
12 h Olivier Galland (University of Oslo) is talking about
Mechanics of Igneous Intrusion Emplacement and implications for Sedimentary Basins
At 13 h Peter Vrolijk (Geologist IODP) will continue with
IODP Expedition 362: Sumatra Seismogenic Zone
05.10.2016
Time scale bias in erosion rates of glaciated landscapes - New paper in Science Advances
Pleistocene climatic cooling and the onset of glaciations did not necessarily lead to a global increase in erosion rates. Instead, erosion rate estimates in glaciated landscapes may be affected by a systematic averaging bias that produces higher estimated erosion rates toward the present, which do not reflect straightforward changes in erosion rates through time. Check out the full story here:
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1600204.full.pdf+html
Pleistocene climatic cooling and the onset of glaciations did not necessarily lead to a global increase in erosion rates. Instead, erosion rate estimates in glaciated landscapes may be affected by a systematic averaging bias that produces higher estimated erosion rates toward the present, which do not reflect straightforward changes in erosion rates through time. Check out the full story here:
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1600204.full.pdf+html
19.07.2016
Christophe Nussbaum (Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo ) will give a talk in the NUGGED Seminar titled "Hydromechnical response of the reactivation of the Main Fault in Mont Terri rock laboratory".
Join the seminar on Thursday, July 21th 2016, 12:00h in room 408!
Our seminars are open to scientists and students, colleagues and friends.
Join the seminar on Thursday, July 21th 2016, 12:00h in room 408!
Our seminars are open to scientists and students, colleagues and friends.
12.07.2016
New paper in Geology just published
Origin and time evolution of subduction polarity reversal from plate kinematics of Southeast Asia
We found a now extinct ocean controls plate kinematics of Southeast Asia and architecture of the Taiwan mountain belt. Subduction of this old ocean more than 30 million years ago is responsible for Eurasia being overridden by the Philippine Sea Plate at present. This discovery is a prerequisite for correctly assessing the earthquake hazard potential of the region. Check out the full publication here:
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/44/8/659.full?ijkey=itluS5mhFVRoI&keytype=ref&siteid=gsgeology
Origin and time evolution of subduction polarity reversal from plate kinematics of Southeast Asia
We found a now extinct ocean controls plate kinematics of Southeast Asia and architecture of the Taiwan mountain belt. Subduction of this old ocean more than 30 million years ago is responsible for Eurasia being overridden by the Philippine Sea Plate at present. This discovery is a prerequisite for correctly assessing the earthquake hazard potential of the region. Check out the full publication here:
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/44/8/659.full?ijkey=itluS5mhFVRoI&keytype=ref&siteid=gsgeology
13.06.2016
Prof. Gioacchino Viggiani (Université Grenoble Alps, France) will give a talk in the NUGGED Seminar titled "X-ray tomography for granular materials - current trends and perspectives".
Join the seminar on Monday, June 20th 2016, 17:00h in room 408!
Our seminars are open to scientists and students, colleagues and friends.
Join the seminar on Monday, June 20th 2016, 17:00h in room 408!
Our seminars are open to scientists and students, colleagues and friends.
09.06.2016
Dear students,
We present our ongoing research projects and possible Bachelor and Master theses at our group:
Thursday, June 16th, 5 pm, room 408 (GED, 4th floor)
Looking forward to seeing you there!
We present our ongoing research projects and possible Bachelor and Master theses at our group:
Thursday, June 16th, 5 pm, room 408 (GED, 4th floor)
Looking forward to seeing you there!
27.05.2016
And here goes the next paper, this time about 'Dilatant normal faulting in jointed cohesive rocks: a physical model study'.
And again, we paid for Open-Access, so get your free copy here: http://www.solid-earth.net/7/843/2016/se-7-843-2016.html
19.05.2016
The final version of our paper about 'Mechanisms of clay smear formation in unconsolidated sediments – insights from 3-D observations of excavated normal faults' is now online!
Get a free copy here, it is open access: http://www.solid-earth.net/7/789/2016/se-7-789-2016.html
11.05.2016
The paper on kinematics of the leading edge of deformation of one of the largest subduction related strike-slip systems on Earth has just been published in Tectonophysics. Check it out here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195116301202
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195116301202
02.05.2016
Kim Nokar (RWTH Aachen) will give a talk in the NUGGED Seminar titled "Structural Analysis of Wadi Taisa, northwestern Jabal Akhdar, Oman Mountains".
Join the seminar on Wednesday, May 4th 2016, 12:00h in room 408!
Our seminars are open to scientists and students, colleagues and friends.
This is a brown-bag seminar, you are invited to bring your lunch to the talks
Join the seminar on Wednesday, May 4th 2016, 12:00h in room 408!
Our seminars are open to scientists and students, colleagues and friends.
This is a brown-bag seminar, you are invited to bring your lunch to the talks
31.03.2016
Yes! Finally! Our review paper on "Clay smear: Review of mechanisms and applications" has made it through the proofs and layout process and is published open access here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/…/article/pii/S0191814115300390
Don't be scared by its length, there is a readers guide included pointing out which sections to read for casual or advanced readers.
05.02.2016
Elizabeth Chamberlain (Tulane University, New Orleans, USA) will give a talk in the NUGGED Seminar titled "Using the geologic record to clarify rates and processes of delta evolution and inform delta management".
Join the seminar on Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 12:00h in room 408!
Our seminars are open to scientists and students, colleagues and friends.
This is a brown-bag seminar, you are invited to bring your lunch to the talks.
Join the seminar on Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 12:00h in room 408!
Our seminars are open to scientists and students, colleagues and friends.
This is a brown-bag seminar, you are invited to bring your lunch to the talks.
06.11.2015
Next week on Wednesday 11th November Dr. Ioannis Papanikolaou from the Agricultural University of Athens will be giving a NUGGED seminar talk titled:
Seismic Landscape and Earthquake Geology (implications for seismic hazards and Catastrophe models)
The talk will begin at 12.00 in room 408. The seminar is open to researchers, students, colleagues and friends.
27.05.2015
In tomorrow's NUGGED seminar Samira Al Balushi & Maryam Al Balushi (GUtech, Oman) will present findings of their Bachelor's Theses in a talk entitled
'Quaternary palaeobeach deposits along the coastline of Aseelah (Oman)'
Everybody is invited to join!
Thursday, 28 May, 2015
12.30 h, Room 408
06.04.2015
On Friday (April, 10th) Sau-Wai Wong from Shell Research and Development will give a talk about "The Geomechanics of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures in Horizontal Wells".
Everybody is kindly invited to join at 13:00h, room 408!
Everybody is kindly invited to join at 13:00h, room 408!
12.03.2015
Joyce' paper on Nano-scale Imaging of Pore-scale Fluid-Fluid-Solid Contacts in Sandstone is accepted for publication in the Geophysical Research Letters. Online
24.02.2015
Tomorrow (25.2.2015) Dr. Ruarri Day-Stirrat (Shell, Houston) will give a talk entitled Unconventional Oil and Gas; The Scales of the Unknowns. Everyone interested is kindly invited to join.
Begin 13.15, room 408, Lochnerstraße 4-20
Begin 13.15, room 408, Lochnerstraße 4-20
18.02.2015
This week's NUGGED seminar will be given by Jochen Hürtgen about a "Paleoseismic Database of Germany". As always on Thursday, but this week at 12:00, room 408
Everyone is invited to join!
Everyone is invited to join!
11.02.2015
In tomorrow's NUGGED seminar our guest Elco Luijendijk (Georg-August-University Göttingen) will talk about "Basin-inversion and evolution of hydrothermal systems in the Roer Valley Graben constrained by thermochronology"
12:30h, room 408
Stuff and students are welcome to join!
12:30h, room 408
Stuff and students are welcome to join!
30.01.2015
The publication 'Multi-scale characterization of porosity in Boom Clay (HADES-level, Mol, Belgium) using a combination of X-ray µ-CT, 2D BIB-SEM and FIB-SEM tomography' is now available online. For a pre-print please visit our 'latest publication' section.
28.01.2015
Tomorrow's NUGGED seminar will be given by Joschka Röth with the title "The Baelo Claudia Tsunami Hypothesis - Results of a multiproxy analysis of sediments within the Roman harbour city of Baelo Claudia"!
12:30, room 408.
We hope to see many of you around!
12:30, room 408.
We hope to see many of you around!
19.01.2015
Dear colleagues and students,
We kindly invite you to the talk 'Microstructural inverstigation of the Whitby mudstone (UK) as an analog for Posidonia Shale (NL)' given by our ex-colleague Maartje Houben on Wednesday 28th of January, 1300, room 408.
We kindly invite you to the talk 'Microstructural inverstigation of the Whitby mudstone (UK) as an analog for Posidonia Shale (NL)' given by our ex-colleague Maartje Houben on Wednesday 28th of January, 1300, room 408.
14.01.2015
Tomorrow (Jan 15) at 12:30 Mingze will present "An Introduction to Automatic Microstructure Segmentation Technique" in our NugGed seminar series. Staff and students are welcome to attend.
07.01.2015
Tomorrow's (Thursday) NUGGED brown-bag seminar will be given by Christoph von Hagke about "A strange thermochronology signal from the Subalpine Molasse".
You are cordially invited to join at 12:30h, room 408, Lochnerstraße 4-20 Haus A, 4th floor.
You are cordially invited to join at 12:30h, room 408, Lochnerstraße 4-20 Haus A, 4th floor.
25.11.2014
Dear colleagues and students,
19.11.2014
Dear students,
We present ongoing research projects and possible Bachelor and Master theses at our group:
Tuesday, Nov. 25th, 6 pm, room 408 (GED, 4th floor)
Looking forward to seeing you there!
We present ongoing research projects and possible Bachelor and Master theses at our group:
Tuesday, Nov. 25th, 6 pm, room 408 (GED, 4th floor)
Looking forward to seeing you there!
30.09.2014
Jops paper "BIB-SEM characterization of pore space morphology and distribution in postmature to overmature samples from the Haynesville and Bossier Shales" has been accepted for publication in Marine and Petroleum Geology. Congratulations!
04.09.2014
The talk by David Fernandez-Blanco (initially scheduled for today) will be postponed to tomorrow (Friday, the 5th) 1:15 pm.
The talk will still take place in room 408, Lochnerstr. 4-20; sorry for any inconvenience and looking forward to seeing you there!
The talk will still take place in room 408, Lochnerstr. 4-20; sorry for any inconvenience and looking forward to seeing you there!
29.08.2014
Next Thursday, Sept. 4th, David Fernandez-Blanco (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / ETH Zurich) will give a talk in our seminar, titled:
Tectonic motions and their geodynamic drivers: The need for an integrative large-scale perspective
We will convene at 13:15 in room 408, Lochnerstr. 4-20.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
19.08.2014
Guillaume's paper 'Nanometer-scale pore fluid distribution and drying damage in preserved
clay cores from Belgian clay formations inferred by BIB-cryo-SEM' is now published in Engineering Geology. Congratulations!
clay cores from Belgian clay formations inferred by BIB-cryo-SEM' is now published in Engineering Geology. Congratulations!
18.08.2014
Bens' paper "Microstructural evolution of an incipient fault zone in Opalinus Clay: Insights from an optical and electron microscopic study of ion-beam polished samples from the Main Fault in the Mt-Terri Underground Research Laboratory" is available online. Click here.
30.07.2014
Max' paper "Changes in fluid pathways in a calcite vein mesh (Natih Formation, Oman Mountains): insights from stable isotopes" is available online. Click here.
18.07.2014
We kindly invite you to our Seminar next Monday (21st of July) at 2pm. Professor Manish A. Mamtani (Department of Geology & Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India) will give a talk on 'The role of mica in fabric evolution of quartz in micaceous quartzite - results from AMS and EBSD analysis'; at our institute of Structural geology, Tectonics and Geomechanics (Lochnerstr. 4-20) in Room 408.
17.07.2014
Today at 12 Ben will give a seminar talk about 'News on micron shear-zone' everybody is welcome to join (the talk will take place in room 416 - Lochnerstraße 4-20, 4th floor).
06.07.2014
This Wednesday (9.7.2014) Prof. Dr. Christian Hübscher (Institute for Geophysics, Center for Marine and Climate Research, University of Hamburg) will give a talk entitled Initial deformation of a salt giant - lessons learned from the Levant Basin. Everyone interested is kindly invited to join.
Begin 11.00 a.m., room 408, Lochnerstraße 4-20
Begin 11.00 a.m., room 408, Lochnerstraße 4-20
30.06.2014
We kindly invite you to this Wednesday's (2nd July, 2014) seminar talk by Chris Spiers from Utrecht University (Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences) on "Pulp friction: How water weakens and destabilizes faults in the seismogenic zone" at 9:15 am at our institute in Lochnerstraße 4-20 (room 408, 4th floor).
12.05.2014
This Thursday (May 15, 10 am) Dr. Holger Ott (Shell E&P) gives his lecture on "Aspects of CO2-brine displacement in sandstone and carbonate rocks". Staff and students are welcome to attend. See the flyer for further information.
01.05.2014
Max paper "Changes in fluid pathways in a calcite vein mesh (Natih Formation, Oman Mountains): Insights from stable isotopes" has been accepted for publication in Geofluids. Download a preprint here.
26.03.2014
This Thursday (27th of March, 2014) Elisabete Pedrosa from University of Münster will give a talk in our lunch seminar (room 408, 4th floor) at 12h. The topic will be:
Porosity generation and evolution during mineral replacement reactions.
Everybody is welcome to join!
Porosity generation and evolution during mineral replacement reactions.
Everybody is welcome to join!
16.12.2013
Susanne's first paper on the porosity in Boom Clay is now published in 'The Netherlands Journal of Geosciences'.
02.12.2013
Simon's paper on the modelling of fracture vein interaction, is now available online, as open access in JGR: Solid Earth. Congratulations!
18.11.2013
Maartje's second paper 'A comparative study of representative 2D microstructures in Shaly and Sandy facies of Opalinus Clay (Mont Terri, Switzerland), inferred form BIB-SEM and MIP methods' has now been published in 'Marine and Petroleum Geology'!
22.10.2013
Maartje's second paper 'A comparative study of representative 2D microstructures in Shaly and Sandy facies of Opalinus Clay (Mont Terri, Switzerland), inferred form BIB-SEM and MIP methods' has now been accepted for publication in 'Marine and Petroleum Geology'!
29.09.2013
Simon's paper on DEM simulation of fracturing in heterogeneous media is now in press in JGR! Click here for a preprint!
29.09.2013
Susanne's paper on BIB-SEM of the porosity in Boom Clay is now in press in NJG! Click here for a preprint!
29.09.2013
Sohrab's paper on 3D morphology of clay gouge in sandbox experiments has been resubmitted to JSG. Click here soon for a preprint!
29.09.2013
Max's manuscript on fluid flow systems in Omani carbonates is in review by Geofluids. Come back soon for more information.
23.09.2013
We are proud to announce that the nex DRT conference (Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics) will be hosted at our university in 2015. The decision has been made during the DRT general assembly last Tuesday at the last DRT conference hosted by KU Leuven (Belgium). We look forward to continue the successful series started in 1976 by Henk Zwart in Leiden (The Netherlands). In honour of Henk Zwart, who passed away in late 2012, the first "Henk Zwart medal" was awarded to Prof. Paul Williams (University of New Brunswick) at the DRT in Leuven.
02.09.2013
'Sichtung und Bewertung der Standortdaten Gorleben', published "vorläufige Sicherheitsanalyse für den Standort Gorleben".
02.08.2013
Next Monday (05.08.13) Martina Klinkenberg (FZ Jülich) will give a talk on her micro structural studies on deformation experiments with clay:
"Influence of carbonate microfabrics on the failure strength of claystones". Feel free to join the talk in room 408 (4th floor) at 12:00!
"Influence of carbonate microfabrics on the failure strength of claystones". Feel free to join the talk in room 408 (4th floor) at 12:00!
24.06.2013
This Friday (June 28, 3 pm) Prof. Dr. Sierd Cloetingh gives his lecture on "Sedimentary Basins and Continental Topography: An Integrated Approach". Staff and students are welcome to attend. See the flyer for further information.
09.06.2013
31.05.2013
The paper 'Numerical investigation of the interplay between wall geometry and friction in granular fault gouge' is now published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth; congratulations!
28.05.2013
We are glad to announce a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Sierd Cloetingh, June 28 2013, 3 pm. Please see the flyer for further information.
13.05.2013
Steffen's paper 'Fracture patterns in nonplane strain boudinage—insights from 3-D discrete element models' has now been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. Congratulations!
15.04.2013
This Friday (April 19th, 2013) Frank Wendler (KIT) will give a talk about Phase-Field modeling of Polycrystal Growth in Fractures. Room 408, 13:30, Haus A, Lochnerstraße 4-20. Flyer: here!
03.04.2013
Susan's and Jop's paper 'Application of BIB–SEM technology to characterize macropore morphology in coal', published in International Journal of Coal Geology, is is now available online.
26.03.2013
Maartje's paper on 'Pore morphology and distribution in the Shaly facies of Opalinus Clay (Mont Terri, Switzerland): Insights from representative 2D BIB–SEM investigations on mm to nm scale' is now published in 'Applied Clay Sciences'. Congratulations!
26.03.2013
Andrea's paper 'Meshless numerical modeling of brittle–viscous deformation: first results on boudinage and hydrofracturing using a coupling of discrete element method (DEM) and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)' is now published in Computational Geosciences. Congratulations!
26.03.2013
Guillaume's paper 'Argon broad ion beam tomography in a cryogenic scanning electron microscope: a novel tool for the investigation of representative microstructures in sedimentary rocks containing pore fluid' is now published in 'Journal of Microscopy'. Congratulations!
18.03.2013
Next Wednesday (27.03.2013) Susanne Buiter will give a talk on "Analysing Wilson Cycle plate margins" Hereby we would like to invite you to the talk held at 14:00 in room 408 (Lochnerstrasse 4-20, 'Haus A'). Susanne Buiter has been elected as the president of the EGU Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology.
08.03.2013
We are currently seeking a motivated Master student to investigate and characterize the pore space in Ypresian Clay samples, using BIB cross-sectioning and SEM imaging methods! The advertisement of the project can as well be found here!
06.03.2013
Todays Seminar held by Jop on "Permeability estimates based on 2D pore size distributions obtained by BIB-SEM in shales" will take place at 12h00 in Room 408.
Everybody is kindly invited!
Everybody is kindly invited!
27.02.2013
Dr. Steffen Abe is leaving our team by end of February. Today during our weekly seminar he gives an overview on the "discrete element modeling" he has been doing the last 6 years in Aachen. Please join us at 12:30 room 408.
19.02.2013
Susan Giffin's (EMR/LEK - RWTH Aachen) paper 'Application of BIB-SEM technology to characterize macropore morphology in coal', with Jop being Co-author, has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Coal Geology. Congratulations!
11.02.2013
The Paper by Steffen and Michael on 3D modelling of boudinage has been accepted for publication in JGR! Download the preprint here!
05.02.2013
Tomorrow (06.02.2013) Prokop Zavada invites for a seminar discussion on his preliminary results on the "impact of solid second phases on deformation mechanisms of naturally deformed rock salt (Kuh-e-Namak, Dashti, Iran)" at our Institute (Lochnerstraße 4-20, room 408) at 12:30
30.01.2013
Today, 12:30, 4th floor Lochnerstraße 4-20 (room 412), Andrea will give a Seminar talk on 'DEM boudinage'. Everybody is warmly invited!
16.01.2013
Andrea's first paper 'Meshless numerical modeling of brittle–viscous deformation: first results on boudinage and hydrofracturing using a coupling of discrete element method (DEM) and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)', published in Computational Geosciences is now available online.
11.01.2013
Next Tuesday (15th of January) Prof. Dr. Martyn R. Drury (from Utrecht University) will give a talk on the "Structure, Strenght and Anisotropy of Lithosphere Shear Zones." Hereby we would like to invite you to the talk held at 13:30 in room 4.08 (Lochnerstrasse 4-20, 'Haus A').
13.12.2012
Next Monday, Dec. 17th 2012, Dr. Prokop Zavada will give a 30 min. presentation on the "Structural framework of the Iranian salt glaciers". Faculty members and students are cordially invited!
13:30-14:00, Room 408, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, Haus A
13:30-14:00, Room 408, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, Haus A
07.12.2012
Simon's, Max's and Zoe's paper on the "Development of fault and vein networks in a carbonate sequence near Hayl al Shaz, Oman Mountains" is in press (GeoArabia). Download a preprint here!
06.12.2012
Andrea's paper "Meshless Numerical Modeling of Brittle-Viscous Deformation: First Results on Boudinage and Hydrofracturing Using a Coupling of Discrete Element Method (DEM) and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)" has been accepted for publication in Computational Geosciences.
07.11.2012
Next Friday, 09.11.2012, Dr. Sam Haines will give a 20 min talk about his JSG paper on "Mineral transformations in clay gouge". Faculty members and students are cordially invited.
12:45 - 13:30, Room 4.08, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, Haus A.
12:45 - 13:30, Room 4.08, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, Haus A.
23.10.2012
Get more updates and news on our Facebook page! We have now more than 1000 followers on Facebook and more than 500 followers on Twitter from all over the world! Our videos on Youtube (the channel is shared with our colleagues from Neotectonics and Geohazards) have been watched now more than 130,000 times. This is amazing! Thanks for all of your support!
12.09.2012
Next Monday (September 17th) at 14:30h Prof. Stephan Matthai (Montan University of Leoben) will give a talk entitled
"What field-data based numerical simulations can teach us about fluid flow in Naturally Fractured Hydrocarbon Reservoirs"
at GED Room 4.08 (Lochnerstrasse 4-20, haus A).
Everybody interested is kindly invited.
"What field-data based numerical simulations can teach us about fluid flow in Naturally Fractured Hydrocarbon Reservoirs"
at GED Room 4.08 (Lochnerstrasse 4-20, haus A).
Everybody interested is kindly invited.
10.09.2012
Today (September 10, 2012) Dr. Stanislav Burliga will give a talk about the "Interpretation of microstructures from bedded salt in SW-Poland". 3pm. Lecture room 408. Lochnerstraße 4-20. Building A.
20.08.2012
This Wednesday (22nd of August), Jan Norbisrath (univeristy of Miami) will give a talk at 13:00, room 4.08, Lochnerstrasse 4-20.
07.08.2012
Jop's manuscript on the nanoporosity of Posidonia Shale has been accepted!! Congratulations Jop! The paper is available online in the Journal of Coal Geology!
05.07.2012
Dr. Joachim Amthor will give a talk (today, 15:00, Room Be 318, Wulnerstrasse 2). Title of the talk will be: Deposition and diagenesis of a chert reservoir at the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary, Sultanate of Oman.
28.06.2012
Today, June 28th, Prof. Dr. Eric van Oort will give a talk on Elimination of lost circulation through active wellbore strengthening. 12:30 - 13:30, Room 4.08, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, Haus A.
25.06.2012
This Friday - June 29th, 12am @ Lecture room 408 - Prof. Paul Bons (Tübingen University) will give a talk titled: "Hydrothermal fluid flow and exhumation". Faculty members and students are cordially invited. Bring your own lunch!
07.05.2012
Shiyuan's Paper 'A method to evaluate long-term rheology of Zechstein salt in the Tertiary' is now published in the book 'Mechanical Behavior of Salt VII' by Berest, Ghoreychi, Hadj-Hassen & Tijani.
20.04.2012
Great news! Adam the baby boy of our team mates Andrea and Zoltan was born last Wednesday! Congratulations!
21.03.2012
now available online: 'Localization patterns in sandbox-scale numerical experiments above a normal fault in basement'
09.03.2012
Prof. Gioacchino Viggiani (Laboratoire 3SR) will give a talk March 16th, 9:30, room 4.08, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, haus A. Topic of the talk will be: Advanced laboratory experimental techniques for measuring deformation of clays at the micro and macro scale.
07.03.2012
Arnd Wilhelms (SVP Petroleum Technology, Statoil) will give a talk tomorrow at 10:30, Lochnerstrasse, Haus B, room 1.09
27.02.2012
21.02.2012
This week, the 23rd of February Andre Vollmert will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk will be: 'Floating university' MSM 20-1 from Cape Town to Walvis Bay on research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.
14.02.2012
This week, the 16th of February Steffen Abe will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk will be: 3D DEM Models of boudinage - strain ratios and fracture patterns. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.
08.02.2012
This week, the 9th of February Sofie Nollet will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk will be: Importance of fault zone geometry in hydrocabon exploration & production. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstrasse 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.
06.02.2012
New paper on 'extreme ductile deformation of fine-grained salt by coupled solution-precipitation creep and microcracking' now available online!
24.01.2012
This week, the 26th of January Francesco Dati will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk will be: Mode and timing of fractured network development in poly-deformed carbonate reservoir analogues, Mt. Chianello (southern Italy). 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.
20.01.2012
The 2 days short course on 'geologic trapping of buoyant fluids' at our institute - will now happen from February 20th-21st.
16.01.2012
Steffens Paper: Discrete element modeling of boudinage: Insights on rock rheology, matrix flow, and evolution of geometry is now published in Journal of Geophysical research!
10.01.2012
This week, the 12th of January Andreas Rudersdorf will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk will be: Remote sensing and geophysics in arid areas - Gaxun Nur Basin, Inner Mongolia (China). First results. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.
15.12.2011
Finally published in 'the Virtual Explorer': Paper on 'The role of fluid-inclusion composition on dynamic recrystallization in experimentally deformed quartz single crystals' with Joyce being co-author. Please download a pre-print here.
14.12.2011
Germany's Federal President Christian Wulff has visited the construction site of Gutech's new Campus at Halban near Muscat, Oman. Have a look at a public Facebook Gallery.
13.12.2011
06.12.2011
05.12.2011
Theodor-Berchem-Preis des DAAD erstmalig vergeben an Prof. Burkard Rauhut (GUtech, Oman)! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
28.11.2011
23.11.2011
Paper on 'DEM simulation of normal faults in cohesive materials' (by Steffen Abe, Heijn van Gent and Janos L. Urai) now published in 'Tectonophysics'!
18.11.2011
Paper 'Distribution and mechanisms of overpressure generation and deflation in the late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian South Oman Salt Basin' published in Geofluids.
17.11.2011
Joyce Schmatz and Ben Laurich received the award of the Professor Dr. Karl-Heinrich Heitfeld-Stiftung for outstanding PhD- and MSc-thesis, respectively. Read the news release here.
07.11.2011
EGU 2012: And there is a third session hosted by one of our group members: "TS9.3/GD8.8 - Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations in geoscience - Methods and Applications". Convener: Steffen Abe (Aachen, Germany), Dion Weatherley (Queensland, Australia) and Einat Aharonov (Jerusalem, Israel). Shortlink: http://bit.ly/EGU-DEM
03.11.2011
Abstract submission for EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2012 open now!
There will be a very interesting session on 'Salt and Evaporites – Tectonics, Mechanics and Rheology' (TS3.2) organized by Frank Strozyk, Steffi Burchadt, Heijn W. van Gent and Janos L. Urai.
There will be a very interesting session on 'Salt and Evaporites – Tectonics, Mechanics and Rheology' (TS3.2) organized by Frank Strozyk, Steffi Burchadt, Heijn W. van Gent and Janos L. Urai.
03.11.2011
EGU 2012: We also would like to drag your attention to session "Faults, fractures and fluid flow". Please consider your abstract submission! The session is organized by Nicola De Paola (Durham), Irfan Ghani (Mainz) , Daniel Koehn (Glasgow) , Max Arndt (Aachen) , Fabrizio Balsamo (Parma).
You are kindly asked to re-share this announcement! Shortlink: http://bit.ly/EGU-Faults-Fracture-Fluidflow
You are kindly asked to re-share this announcement! Shortlink: http://bit.ly/EGU-Faults-Fracture-Fluidflow
30.10.2011
We are currently seeking motivated students to fill in vacancies for MSc. and BSc. projects in various fields of our research. Have a look here!
25.10.2011
We uploaded some pictures of the short course: Structure, permeability and fluid flow at depth in the Earth's crust, given by Prof. Stephen Cox.
To view the gallery klick here!
To view the gallery klick here!
25.10.2011
A pdf of Heijn's talk last week at PGK on 'The dynamics of the Dutch subsurface: Paleostress and the internal geometry of the Zechstein' is now available online!
19.10.2011
14.10.2011
05.10.2011
We welcome our new students! This Friday people of our staff (Simon, Max, Ben, Patrick, Tobias and Marius) will guide short field trips to introduce the geology of Aachen and it's surroundings.
23.09.2011
We uploaded some pictures of the Geology Excursion guided by Simon and Max for the 2011 Foundation year graduates from GUtech, Muscat. See them on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/GUtechGeolExcursion2011. Thanks to Lena Virgo and Stefani German.
19.09.2011
Upcoming 3-day short course "Structure, permeability and fluid flow at depth in the Earth's crust". October 11th - 13th. Lecturer is Professor Stephen Cox (ANU). More information: http://bit.ly/Cox11Shortcourse.
MSc-students, PhD-students and PostDocs are welcome to apply!
MSc-students, PhD-students and PostDocs are welcome to apply!
15.09.2011
The upcoming 2 days short course on 'geologic trapping of buoyant fluids' at our institute - planned for the 13th-14th of October - has to be postponed! New dates will be announced as soon as they are known!
07.09.2011
We welcome this year's batch of GUtech's 2nd year students (applied geosciences) for their two weeks laboratory course at your university! See also GUtech's last flyer (Sept-Oct 2011)!
25.08.2011
23.08.2011
15.08.2011
The paper 'Reflectance of dispersed vitrinite in Palaeozoic rocks with and without cleavage: Implications for burial and thermal history modeling in the Devonian of Rursee area, northern Rhenish Massif, Germany' by Ralf Littke et al. is now available online!
15.08.2011
There is as well a new paper on 'The role of fluid-inclusion composition on dynamic recrystallization in experimentally deformed quartz single crystals' by Ineke Dijkstra with Joyce being co-author, right now in 'dynamic review' in Journal of the Virtual Explorer.
28.07.2011
20.07.2011
We are more than happy to announce that Prof. Stephen Cox from the Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES) at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra will spend a six month sabbatical with us. Stephen plans to start in early August. He'll be working on the FRACs-project and veins in general. Welcome Stephen!
20.07.2011
Online: Michael Kettermann's BSc. Thesis: "The analogue modeling of boudins" @ http://rwth.de/go/7st
04.07.2011
We congratulate our students Alexander Raith, Patrick Wüstefeld and Sebastian Thronberens for receiving the 1st poster price of the 2011 Geotag at RWTH-Aachen. They presented a poster on their BSc thesis with the title "How to take an outcrop home?". Have a look at their theses here.
During the annual general assembly of the VAG Alexander and Patrick were honored for their outstanding BSc. graduate during the VAG's annual general assembly last Friday.
During the annual general assembly of the VAG Alexander and Patrick were honored for their outstanding BSc. graduate during the VAG's annual general assembly last Friday.
04.07.2011
What a successful Geotag for our research group this year! Michael Kettermann has won the second poster price at the Geotag 2011 with the title "Interaction between joints and normal faults in a graben setting - a field study at Canyonlands National Park, Utah/USA".
Our Hiwis Jochen Hürtgen and Andy Rudersdorf complete the range of awardees by receiving the third poster price (Neotectonic activity of the Granada Basin – new evidence from the Padul-Nigüelas Fault Zone). Congratulations!
Our Hiwis Jochen Hürtgen and Andy Rudersdorf complete the range of awardees by receiving the third poster price (Neotectonic activity of the Granada Basin – new evidence from the Padul-Nigüelas Fault Zone). Congratulations!
27.06.2011
2 papers of Guillaume on: 'High-resolution 3D fabric and porosity model in a tight gas sandstone reservoir' and 'Distribution of brine in grain boundaries during static recrystallization in wet, synthetic halite' using BIB-SEM investigations, are now available online.
24.06.2011
Next Monday, June 27th, Eva de Boever (RPR) will give the talk: Approach for the quantification and prediction of 3D pore network evolution in carbonates. Start at 16:00h, in Raum 318 Wullnerstrasse 2, Aachen.
17.06.2011
Riccardo Klinger (FU Berlin) will give a talk at our institute on Friday, June-17 at 10:30 am. Title of his talk is: "Share your desk! Knowledge distribution and presentation in a post-GIS environment". All NUGGED staff members and interested students are welcome.
16.06.2011
The June 16th Monika Mac, PhD student at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) is on "Ion Beam tomography of concrete nano-microstructure: new perspectives on durability studies of construction materials".
09.06.2011
Joyce' paper on the interaction of migrating grain boundaries and fluid inclusions is published in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.
27.05.2011
We have a PhD-position available in our cryo-SEM nano-porosity group (application deadline: June 15th).
26.05.2011
We published on the structure and evolution of a Rocksalt-Mudrock-Tectonite from the Haselgebirge in the Northern Calcareous Alps.
26.05.2011
Wir haben die ersten Fotowettbewerbsbeiträge erhalten, schau sie Dir mal an! Die deadline für Deinen Beitrag ist der 15. Juni. Die Anmeldung über Campus is jetzt auch geöffnet. Siehe hier für Details.
25.05.2011
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir Herrn Prof. Dr. emer. Roland Walter (Geologisches Institut) und Frau Dr. Veronika Deffner (Kulturgeographie) für Keynotes auf dem Geotag 2011 gewinnen konnten.
24.05.2011
23.05.2011
We've published some pictures of the "Tectonics for beginners" excursion to Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium on our Facebook profile. Images are a courtesy by our student Kim Nokar. If you have further images, please contact us via Facebook.
20.05.2011
11.05.2011
Terrestrial archives in Western Europe (Spain, France, Potugal): Late Pleistocene/Holocene paleoclimatic variations
04.05.2011
Tsunamigenic deposits in the Mediterranean - sedimentological and geophysical investigations in different accumulation environments
29.04.2011
The website hosting information about the excursion "Tektonik für Anfänger" (tectonics for beginners) is online!
Participating students should have received a confirmation mail. Please pay your exkursion dues soon!
Participating students should have received a confirmation mail. Please pay your exkursion dues soon!
26.04.2011
The BSc-theses of Alexander Raith (thesis), Patrick Wüstefeld (thesis) and Sebastian Thronberens (thesis), all dealing with high detail observations of crack-seal networks in Oman, using stereophotography and gigapixel panoramas, are now online at the RWTH Library!
21.04.2011
Todays seminar in room 4.08!!!
Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.
Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.
20.04.2011
13.04.2011
Frank Strozyk - Parameterization of the Zechstein 3 stringer structure on- and offshore northern Netherlands
12.04.2011
Jochen Kolb (Danish Geological Survey, GEUS, Kopenhagen) will give a lecture on "Orogenic gold mineralization in southern West and South-West Greenland: a
30.03.2011
Dr Dion Weatherley (Univesity of Queensland, Australia) - Miscellaneous investigations on rock mechanics using the Discrete Element Method
28.03.2011
Marc Hollands MSc mapping report and analogue modeling thesis, both on the dynamics of fault zones near the Kilauea caldera on Hawaii are available on the RWTH Library server.
24.03.2011
Joyce's paper on migrating grain boundaries and fluid inclusions in quartz veins and the paper of Stephan Becker (GIA) on veins in RWTH-1 well are now published in JSG
16.03.2011
Tomorrow in the NugGed seminar series: Simon Virgo - The role of veins as mechanical anisotropies in rocks and their influence to fracturing: scenes from a crack seal vein network. March 17th 2011, room 4.12 4th floor, 12 o' clock, Lochnestraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.
11.03.2011
Marc's paper on 4D evolution of dilatant fault networks using cohesive modeling material is now online at Earth and Planetary Science Letters. We have uploaded a number of related videos to our YouTube Channel, including a true 3D representation of a fault zone.
08.03.2011
We are looking for a BSc-student at the RWTH who wants to study shear zones in analogue models for his or her BSc-Thesis, using several different materials. See here for more information.
01.03.2011
24.02.2011
22.02.2011
The paper of Steffen and Karen Mair on simulated fault gouge evolution is online at Pure and Applied Geophysics
21.02.2011
02.02.2011
01.02.2011
28.01.2011
January 31st, 1Live Radio did a short radio interview with Max Arndt, about life and work in Al Hamra! Listen to it here!
27.01.2011
We uploaded a number of new DEM movies to our YouTube channel. These movies show the development of open fractures in numerical models, and include Stephan Tulkens' work on crack detection.
13.01.2011
We submitted a paper on the role of fluid‐inclusion composition on dynamic recrystallization in quartz to the JVE. Download a copy here.
03.01.2011
Joyce' paper on fluid inclusions in naturally deformed quartz from the Hunsrück Slate is available online in the Journal of Structural Geology.
22.12.2010
Sohrab Noorsalehi-Garakani and Heijn van Gent recieved the Heitfeldpreis 2010 for their outstanding Diplom and Dr- thesi, respectivly.
24.11.2010
The papers of Marc on vein networks in Oman and Heijn on models of dilatant faulting using cohesive powders are now published in JSG
09.11.2010
Download preprint of Frank's paper on 3D seismic study of complex intra-salt deformation, here, and Shiyuan's paper on numerical modeling of displacment and deformation of embedded rock bodies in salt structures, here. Both papers are accepted for publication in the Geological Society of London Special Publication on Salt
Normal faults in Radiolarites at Batain Coast Oman
Dextral offset of subvertical fault zone by subhorizontal fault in Radiolarites at Batain Coast Oman
Defeating gForce on Calcite Vein Pavements Oman
Dawn on the North Pillar of Monte Agner in the Dolomites
CapdeCreusHvG4
Delicate Arch - Arches National Park
Fault thin clay layers
Bathtub syncline, offshore at Moss Beach, San Mateo County, CA, USA
Pore throat in shale
Rock salt gamma irridiation container in nuclear reactor basin
microtectonics GBM Rx Plagioclase
microtectonics kinked mica
Cemented fault core of Dar Al-Baydhaa (DAB) fault at Jabal Shams
Calcite filled wing crack with tip splay
Inden brown coal mine near Aachen
Batain coast, Oman
found at Batain Coast Oman
View from inside the Eifel Cube Google Earth file looking towards the east Download under Education and then Supplementary material
Conjugate faults with small displacement, quarry Sibbergroeve (Photo by M. Kettermann)
System of joints at the ceiling. (Photo by M. Kettermann)
Crack with relay
Car supported GPR
Geotag 2011-Die Poster und Ausstellung der Geotag
Pores in Calcite
Pyrite framboids in Boom Clay
Crack at Courthouse Junction
Hydrofracturing – displacement vectors
Microbreccia in faulted Opalinus Clay
DEM model of a fracture system in 3D - in press JGR
T-crystal showing lateral crystal growth in Omani calcite veins
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