Christopher Spiers

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Professor of Earth Materials and Experimental Rock Deformation. Head of High Pressure and Temperature Laboratory (HPT Lab). Head of Experimental rock deformation group (since 1992).

Utrecht University

Netherlands

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Christopher Spiers is a Professor of Earth Materials and Experimental Rock Deformation at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He serves as the Head of the High Pressure and Temperature Laboratory and has led the Experimental Rock Deformation Group since 1992. His research focuses on rate-dependent inelastic deformation, frictional properties of fault gouges, and implications for seismic activities, as highlighted in his recent publications.

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Healing and sealing earthquake faults: How fluids influence the seismic cycle

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Close Date: 2023-01-01

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University of Bern

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Rate-dependent inelastic deformation of Slochteren sandstone: implication for reservoir compaction in the Groningen gas field

An Extended Microphysical Friction Model for Variable Normal Stress Conditions

Non‐Hertzian Stress Fields in Simulated Porous Sandstone Grains and Implications for Compactive Brittle Failure—A High‐Resolution FEM Approach

The Frictional‐Viscous Transition in Experimentally Deformed Granitoid Fault Gouge

Frictional Properties of Simulated Fault Gouges Subject to Normal Stress Oscillation and Implications for Induced Seismicity

Rapid Normal Stress Oscillations Cause Weakening and Anelastic Dilation in Gouge‐Bearing Faults

Frictional Properties of Natural Granite Fault Gouge Under Hydrothermal Conditions: A Case Study of Strike‐Slip Fault From Anninghe Fault Zone, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Fault Weakening During Short Seismic Slip Pulse Experiments: The Role of Pressurized Water and Implications for Induced Earthquakes in the Groningen Gas Field

Hydrothermal Friction Experiments on Simulated Basaltic Fault Gouge and Implications for Megathrust Earthquakes

Seismic Fault Slip Behavior Predicted From Internal Microphysical Processes

4D Synchrotron X-ray Imaging of Grain Scale Deformation Mechanisms in a Seismogenic Gas Reservoir Sandstone During Axial Compaction

Effect of pore fluid chemistry on uniaxial compaction creep of Bentheim sandstone and implications for reservoir injection operations

Compaction of the Groningen Gas Reservoir Sandstone: Discrete Element Modeling Using Microphysically Based Grain‐Scale Interaction Laws

Seismic Slip‐Pulse Experiments Simulate Induced Earthquake Rupture in the Groningen Gas Field

Impact of Chemical Environment on Compaction Behaviour of Quartz Sands during Stress-Cycling

Microphysical Modeling of Carbonate Fault Friction at Slip Rates Spanning the Full Seismic Cycle

Microphysics of Inelastic Deformation in Reservoir Sandstones from the Seismogenic Center of the Groningen Gas Field

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Marco Herwegh

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