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Fractures and veins news
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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'!
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
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
14.10.2011
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!
25.08.2011
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!
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!
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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
Fractures and veins publications
Theses
Evolution of a crack-seal calcite vein network in limestone : a high resolution structural, microstructural and geochemical study from the Jebel Akhdar high pressure cell, Oman Mountains. MSc-thesis, Geologie - Endogene Dynamik, RWTH Aachen University. (2010)
Nonreviewed
A World-class Exposure of a Fossil High Pressure Cell on the Southern Flank of Jabal Shams in the Oman Mountains. Al Hajar , FEB2010 (16), 3-7. (2010)
Abstracts
Tectonic Evolution of the Ohrid Basin (Macedonia/Albania): preliminary results for a future ICDP deep drilling site. EGU General Assembly 2009, Wien, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 11. (2009)
Field observations and Interpretation of remote sensing data from an exhumed a high pressure carbonate reservoir, Jebel Shams, Oman Mountains. Geo 2008; International Conference and 106th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften e (2008)
Deformation and hydrothermal alteration of radiolarites, Batain Coast, Eastern Oman. Geo 2008; International Conference and 106th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften e. V. (DGG) and 98th annual meeting of the Geologische Vere (2008)