Dear Colleague,
let us apologize for multiple posting. We would like to encourage you to
contribute with a presentation to the session on "Rock Physics and
Natural Hazards" (EMRP2.6/GMPV6.10/NH4.1/SM5.5/TS2.9)) at the EGU
Meeting, to be held in Vienna, Austria from 22 to 27 April 2012 (for
details: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9082).
Invited speakers
Prof. C. Scholz, Columbia University, USA
Dr. N. De Paola, University of Durham, England
Prof. K. Russell, University of Vancouver, Canada
Convener: Sergio Vinciguerra
Co-Conveners: Daniel Faulkner, Giulio Di Toro
Deadline for receiving abstracts is 17th January 2012
A description of the session is provided below. Please pass this
information to colleagues and students working in this field.
Thank you
Kind regards
Sergio Vinciguerra, Daniel Faulkner and Giulio Di Toro
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Event information
Natural hazards events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions involve
activation of coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes in rocks.
Understanding these dynamic coupled processes is therefore of key
importance in elucidating our comprehension of earthquakes and volcanic
unrests and essential for the mitigation of seismic and volcanic hazard.
Rock physics experiments and numerical models can help us to understand
and constrain the mechanisms of natural hazards from the micro to the
macro scale. We invite novel contributions based on laboratory
experiments, numerical modeling and field work (or a combination of
these) relative to the understanding of:
1) Fault evolution in the interseismic period, including healing, and
sealing processes,
2) Rupture and frictional processes: experiments and modeling
3) Rock deformation and coupled processes in rocks,
4) Fault structure and mechanics, from the field and laboratory to
exploratory drilling of major faults,
5) Fracture and flow in volcanic and geothermal areas and the physical
properties of volcanic rocks
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Have a look at seismic faults in the lab.... plenty of friction melts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTfwJ3Elw5s
.... or abrupt accelerations and instantaneous melting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-N38H5aicM&feature=related
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office 1
Giulio Di Toro
c/o Università degli Studi di Padova
Dipartimento di Geoscienze
via G. Gradenigo, 6
35131 Padova (Italy)
ITALY
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fax ++39 049 8279134
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URL:
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office 2
Giulio Di Toro
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Via di Vigna Murata 605
00143 Roma
ITALY
Tel: (+39) 0651860730
Fax: (+39) 0651860507
email:
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URL:
http://www.roma1.ingv.it/Members/ditoro
http://www.roma1.ingv.it/laboratori/laboratorio-hp-ht/usems-project
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“Go my sons, buy stout shoes, climb the mountains, search the valleys,
the deserts, the sea shores, and the deep recess of the earth. Look for
the various kinds of minerals, note their characters and mark their origin.
Lastly, buy coal, build furnaces, observe and experiment without
ceasing, for in this way and in no other will you arrive at knowledge
of the nature and properties of things”.
Petrus Severinus (Peder Soerensen) naturalist, philosopher and physician (1542-1602)
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