List of works - Christopher J. Spiers

A microphysical model for fault gouge friction applied to subduction megathrusts

A microphysical model for strong velocity weakening in phyllosilicate-bearing fault gouges

scholarly article

A new experimental method to determine the CO2 sorption capacity of coal

scientific article

Anisotropic swelling behaviour of coal matrix cubes exposed to water vapour: Effects of relative humidity and sample size

Applied stress reduces the CO2 sorption capacity of coal

scientific article

Brittle and semibrittle creep of Tavel limestone deformed at room temperature

scholarly article

Coastal spreading of olivine to control atmospheric CO2 concentrations: A critical analysis of viability

scientific article

Compaction creep of sands due to time-dependent grain failure: Effects of chemical environment, applied stress, and grain size

scientific article

Compaction creep of wet granular calcite by pressure solution at 28°C to 150°C

scientific article

Compaction of granular quartz under hydrothermal conditions: Controlling mechanisms and grain boundary processes

scientific article

Competition between adsorption-induced swelling and elastic compression of coal at CO2 pressures up to 100MPa

scientific article

Coupling of swelling, internal stress evolution, and diffusion in coal matrix material during exposure to methane

Creep of simulated reservoir sands and coupled chemical-mechanical effects of CO2injection

scientific article

Deformation Behavior of Sandstones From the Seismogenic Groningen Gas Field: Role of Inelastic Versus Elastic Mechanisms

scientific article

Deformation bands in porous carbonate grainstones: Field and laboratory observations

scientific article

Diagenetic compaction experiments on simulated anhydrite fault gouge under static conditions

Direct determination of total CO2 uptake by coal: A new technique compared with the manometric method

Drill core from seismically active sandstone gas reservoir yields clues to internal deformation mechanisms

scientific article

Dynamic simulation of CO2-injection-induced fault rupture with slip-rate dependent friction coefficient

Earthquake nucleation in weak subducted carbonates

scholarly article by Robert M. Kurzawski et al published 1 August 2016 in Nature Geoscience

Effect of 3-D stress state on adsorption of CO2 by coal

scientific article

Effect of CO 2 -induced reactions on the mechanical behaviour of fractured wellbore cement

Effect of lithostatic stress on methane sorption by coal: Theory vs. experiment and implications for predicting in-situ coalbed methane content

article published in 2016

Effect of pre-existing crystallographic preferred orientation on the rheology of Carrara marble

scientific article published in November 2014

Effects of healing on the seismogenic potential of carbonate fault rocks: Experiments on samples from the Longmenshan Fault, Sichuan, China

article

Effects of interfacial energy on compaction creep by intergranular pressure solution: Theory versus experiments on a rock analog (NaNO3)

scientific article

Effects of phosphate ions on intergranular pressure solution in calcite: An experimental study

scientific article

Effects of temperature and CO2 on the frictional behavior of simulated anhydrite fault rock

scholarly article

Electrical impedance measurement of hydrous microcrystalline quartz

scientific article

Evidence of growth and sector zoning in hydrothermal quartz from Alpine veins

scientific article

Experimental evidence linking slip instability with seafloor lithology and topography at the Costa Rica convergent margin

article

Failure behavior of single sand grains: Theory versus experiment

scientific article published on 17 June 2011

Failure behaviour wellbore cement in the presence of water and supercritical CO2

scientific article

Fault friction and slip stability not affected by Co2 storage: Evidence from short-term laboratory experiments on North Sea reservoir sandstones and caprocks

scientific article

Friction properties and deformation mechanisms of halite(-mica) gouges from low to high sliding velocities

scientific article

Frictional Properties and Microstructure of Calcite-Rich Fault Gouges Sheared at Sub-Seismic Sliding Velocities

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Frictional Properties of Sedimentary Rocks and Natural Fault Gouge from the Longmen Shan Fault Zone, Sichuan, China

scholarly article

Frictional Properties of Simulated Chlorite Gouge at Hydrothermal Conditions: Implications for Subduction Megathrusts

scientific article

Frictional Properties of Simulated Fault Gouges from the Seismogenic Groningen Gas Field Under In SituP-T-Chemical Conditions

scholarly article

Frictional Properties of Subduction Input Sediments at an Erosive Convergent Continental Margin and Related Controls on Décollement Slip Modes: The Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project

scholarly article by Robert M. Kurzawski et al published October 2018 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Frictional behaviour and transport properties of simulated fault gouges derived from a natural CO 2 reservoir

Frictional properties of JFAST core samples and implications for slow earthquakes at the Tohoku subduction zone

scholarly article by Michiyo Sawai et al published 9 September 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Frictional properties of megathrust fault gouges at low sliding velocities: New data on effects of normal stress and temperature

scientific article

Frictional slip weakening and shear-enhanced crystallinity in simulated coal fault gouges at slow slip rates

scientific article published in 2020

Frictional slip weakening and shear-enhanced crystallinity in simulated coal fault gouges at subseismic slip rates

Ground motions induced by a producing hydrocarbon reservoir that is overlain by a viscoelastic rocksalt layer: a numerical model

Healing Behavior of Simulated Fault Gouges From the Groningen Gas Field and Implications for Induced Fault Reactivation

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

High shear strain behaviour of synthetic muscovite fault gouges under hydrothermal conditions

scientific article

Impact of Chemical Environment on Compaction Creep of Quartz Sand and Possible Geomechanical Applications

scholarly article

Impact of rock salt creep law choice on subsidence calculations for hydrocarbon reservoirs overlain by evaporite caprocks

scientific article

Importance of thermochemical pressurization in the dynamic weakening of the Longmenshan Fault during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: Inferences from experiments and modeling

scholarly article by Jianye Chen et al published August 2013 in Journal of geophysical research. Solid earth

Inelastic Deformation of the Slochteren Sandstone: Stress‐Strain Relations and Implications for Induced Seismicity in the Groningen Gas Field

scientific article

Influence of Grain Boundary Structural Evolution on Pressure Solution Creep Rates

Influence of grain boundary structure on dissolution controlled pressure solution and retarding effects of grain boundary healing

scientific article

Influence of pore fluid salt content on compaction creep of calcite aggregates in the presence of supercritical CO2

scholarly article

Intergranular Clay Films Control Inelastic Deformation in the Groningen Gas Reservoir: Evidence From Split‐Cylinder Deformation Tests

scientific article

Interseismic re-strengthening and stabilization of carbonate faults by “non-Dieterich” healing under hydrothermal conditions

scholarly article by Jianye Chen et al published August 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Investigating Compaction by Intergranular Pressure Solution Using the Discrete Element Method.

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Investigation on the permeability characteristics of bedded salt rocks and the tightness of natural gas caverns in such formations

article by Wei Liu et al published September 2016 in Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Mass removal and clay mineral dehydration/rehydration in carbonate-rich surface exposures of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake fault: Geochemical evidence and implications for fault zone evolution and coseismic slip

scientific article

Measurements of ionic diffusivity in various rock samples: Low diffusivity through nanoscale pores

scientific article

Mechanical behavior and microstructure of simulated calcite fault gouge sheared at 20-600°C: Implications for natural faults in limestones

scientific article

Mechanical behavior of anhydrite caprock and implications for CO2sealing capacity

scientific article

Microfracturing of coal due to interaction with CO2 under unconfined conditions

scientific article

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

Microphysical modeling of carbonate fault friction at slip rates spanning the full seismic cycle

Microphysically Derived Expressions for Rate-and-State Friction Parameters, a , b , and D c

scholarly article

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

Microscale cavitation as a mechanism for nucleating earthquakes at the base of the seismogenic zone

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Nanocrystalline Principal Slip Zones and Their Role in Controlling Crustal Fault Rheology

scientific article

Nanocrystalline slip zones in calcite fault gouge show intense crystallographic preferred orientation: Crystal plasticity at sub-seismic slip rates at 18–150 °C

article

New approaches in experimental research on rock and fault behaviour in the Groningen gas field

Nucleation of Stick-Slip Instability Within a Large-Scale Experimental Fault: Effects of Stress Heterogeneities Due to Loading and Gouge Layer Compaction

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Nucleation of frictional instability caused by fluid pressurization in subducted blueschist

scholarly article

Peridotite dissolution and carbonation rates at fracture surfaces under conditions relevant for in situ mineralization of CO2

scientific article

Preface

Rate and state frictional and healing behavior of carbonate fault gouge explained using microphysical model

article

Reaction and transport in wellbore interfaces under CO2 storage conditions: Experiments simulating debonded cement–casing interfaces

scientific article

Reaction of plagioclase feldspars with CO2 under hydrothermal conditions

scholarly article

Reaction-driven casing expansion: potential for wellbore leakage mitigation

Reactive transport of CO 2 -rich fluids in simulated wellbore interfaces: Flow-through experiments on the 1–6 m length scale

Rock mechanics. Superplastic nanofibrous slip zones control seismogenic fault friction

scientific article published on December 2014

Role of Adsorption in the Creep Behavior of Coal and Shale

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Shear localization in a mature mylonitic rock analog during fast slip

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Surface diffusivity of cleaved NaCl crystals as a function of humidity: Impedance spectroscopy measurements and implications for crack healing in rock salt

scholarly article

Temperature and Gas/Brine Content Affect Seismogenic Potential of Simulated Fault Gouges Derived From Groningen Gas Field Caprock

scholarly article

The Force of Crystallization and Fracture Propagation during In-Situ Carbonation of Peridotite

The development of subgrain misorientations with strain in dry synthetic NaCl measured using EBSD

scientific article

The effect of CO2 on creep of wet calcite aggregates

scholarly article

The influence of water on deformation microstructures and textures in synthetic NaCl measured using EBSD

scientific article

The mechanical behavior of anhydrite and the effect of CO2 injection

scientific article

The mechanical behavior of anhydrite and the effect of deformation on permeability development–Implications for caprock integrity during geological storage of CO2

scientific article

The physics of fault friction: Insights from experiments on simulated gouges at low shearing velocities

The physics of fault friction: insights from experiments on simulated gouges at low shearing velocities

scientific article published in 2020

The roles of quartz and water in controlling unstable slip in phyllosilicate-rich megathrust fault gouges

Thermodynamic models for swelling of unconfined coal due to adsorption of mixed gases

Time-independent compaction behavior of quartz sands

article published in 2014

Understanding dilatancy in rocksalt: a microphysical model of rocksalt at the grain-scale

Understanding induced seismicity

scientific article

Weakening of rock salt by water during long-term creep

scientific article published in Nature

Weakening of the slab–mantle wedge interface induced by metasomatic growth of talc

scientific article

List of works by Christopher J. Spiers

A microphysical model for fault gouge friction applied to subduction megathrusts

A microphysical model for strong velocity weakening in phyllosilicate-bearing fault gouges

A new experimental method to determine the CO2 sorption capacity of coal

Anisotropic swelling behaviour of coal matrix cubes exposed to water vapour: Effects of relative humidity and sample size

Applied stress reduces the CO2 sorption capacity of coal

Brittle and semibrittle creep of Tavel limestone deformed at room temperature

Coastal spreading of olivine to control atmospheric CO2 concentrations: A critical analysis of viability

Compaction creep of sands due to time-dependent grain failure: Effects of chemical environment, applied stress, and grain size

Compaction creep of wet granular calcite by pressure solution at 28°C to 150°C

Compaction of granular quartz under hydrothermal conditions: Controlling mechanisms and grain boundary processes

Competition between adsorption-induced swelling and elastic compression of coal at CO2 pressures up to 100MPa

Coupling of swelling, internal stress evolution, and diffusion in coal matrix material during exposure to methane

Creep of simulated reservoir sands and coupled chemical-mechanical effects of CO2injection

Deformation Behavior of Sandstones From the Seismogenic Groningen Gas Field: Role of Inelastic Versus Elastic Mechanisms

Deformation bands in porous carbonate grainstones: Field and laboratory observations

Diagenetic compaction experiments on simulated anhydrite fault gouge under static conditions

Direct determination of total CO2 uptake by coal: A new technique compared with the manometric method

Drill core from seismically active sandstone gas reservoir yields clues to internal deformation mechanisms

Dynamic simulation of CO2-injection-induced fault rupture with slip-rate dependent friction coefficient

Earthquake nucleation in weak subducted carbonates

Effect of 3-D stress state on adsorption of CO2 by coal

Effect of CO 2 -induced reactions on the mechanical behaviour of fractured wellbore cement

Effect of lithostatic stress on methane sorption by coal: Theory vs. experiment and implications for predicting in-situ coalbed methane content

Effect of pre-existing crystallographic preferred orientation on the rheology of Carrara marble

Effects of healing on the seismogenic potential of carbonate fault rocks: Experiments on samples from the Longmenshan Fault, Sichuan, China

Effects of interfacial energy on compaction creep by intergranular pressure solution: Theory versus experiments on a rock analog (NaNO3)

Effects of phosphate ions on intergranular pressure solution in calcite: An experimental study

Effects of temperature and CO2 on the frictional behavior of simulated anhydrite fault rock

Electrical impedance measurement of hydrous microcrystalline quartz

Evidence of growth and sector zoning in hydrothermal quartz from Alpine veins

Experimental evidence linking slip instability with seafloor lithology and topography at the Costa Rica convergent margin

Failure behavior of single sand grains: Theory versus experiment

Failure behaviour wellbore cement in the presence of water and supercritical CO2

Fault friction and slip stability not affected by Co2 storage: Evidence from short-term laboratory experiments on North Sea reservoir sandstones and caprocks

Friction properties and deformation mechanisms of halite(-mica) gouges from low to high sliding velocities

Frictional Properties and Microstructure of Calcite-Rich Fault Gouges Sheared at Sub-Seismic Sliding Velocities

Frictional Properties of Sedimentary Rocks and Natural Fault Gouge from the Longmen Shan Fault Zone, Sichuan, China

Frictional Properties of Simulated Chlorite Gouge at Hydrothermal Conditions: Implications for Subduction Megathrusts

Frictional Properties of Simulated Fault Gouges from the Seismogenic Groningen Gas Field Under In SituP-T-Chemical Conditions

Frictional Properties of Subduction Input Sediments at an Erosive Convergent Continental Margin and Related Controls on Décollement Slip Modes: The Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project

Frictional behaviour and transport properties of simulated fault gouges derived from a natural CO 2 reservoir

Frictional properties of JFAST core samples and implications for slow earthquakes at the Tohoku subduction zone

Frictional properties of megathrust fault gouges at low sliding velocities: New data on effects of normal stress and temperature

Frictional slip weakening and shear-enhanced crystallinity in simulated coal fault gouges at slow slip rates

Frictional slip weakening and shear-enhanced crystallinity in simulated coal fault gouges at subseismic slip rates

Ground motions induced by a producing hydrocarbon reservoir that is overlain by a viscoelastic rocksalt layer: a numerical model

Healing Behavior of Simulated Fault Gouges From the Groningen Gas Field and Implications for Induced Fault Reactivation

High shear strain behaviour of synthetic muscovite fault gouges under hydrothermal conditions

Impact of Chemical Environment on Compaction Creep of Quartz Sand and Possible Geomechanical Applications

Impact of rock salt creep law choice on subsidence calculations for hydrocarbon reservoirs overlain by evaporite caprocks

Importance of thermochemical pressurization in the dynamic weakening of the Longmenshan Fault during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: Inferences from experiments and modeling

Inelastic Deformation of the Slochteren Sandstone: Stress‐Strain Relations and Implications for Induced Seismicity in the Groningen Gas Field

Influence of Grain Boundary Structural Evolution on Pressure Solution Creep Rates

Influence of grain boundary structure on dissolution controlled pressure solution and retarding effects of grain boundary healing

Influence of pore fluid salt content on compaction creep of calcite aggregates in the presence of supercritical CO2

Intergranular Clay Films Control Inelastic Deformation in the Groningen Gas Reservoir: Evidence From Split‐Cylinder Deformation Tests

Interseismic re-strengthening and stabilization of carbonate faults by “non-Dieterich” healing under hydrothermal conditions

Investigating Compaction by Intergranular Pressure Solution Using the Discrete Element Method.

Investigation on the permeability characteristics of bedded salt rocks and the tightness of natural gas caverns in such formations

Mass removal and clay mineral dehydration/rehydration in carbonate-rich surface exposures of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake fault: Geochemical evidence and implications for fault zone evolution and coseismic slip

Measurements of ionic diffusivity in various rock samples: Low diffusivity through nanoscale pores

Mechanical behavior and microstructure of simulated calcite fault gouge sheared at 20-600°C: Implications for natural faults in limestones

Mechanical behavior of anhydrite caprock and implications for CO2sealing capacity

Microfracturing of coal due to interaction with CO2 under unconfined conditions

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

Microphysical modeling of carbonate fault friction at slip rates spanning the full seismic cycle

Microphysically Derived Expressions for Rate-and-State Friction Parameters, a , b , and D c

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

Microscale cavitation as a mechanism for nucleating earthquakes at the base of the seismogenic zone

Nanocrystalline Principal Slip Zones and Their Role in Controlling Crustal Fault Rheology

Nanocrystalline slip zones in calcite fault gouge show intense crystallographic preferred orientation: Crystal plasticity at sub-seismic slip rates at 18–150 °C

New approaches in experimental research on rock and fault behaviour in the Groningen gas field

Nucleation of Stick-Slip Instability Within a Large-Scale Experimental Fault: Effects of Stress Heterogeneities Due to Loading and Gouge Layer Compaction

Nucleation of frictional instability caused by fluid pressurization in subducted blueschist

Peridotite dissolution and carbonation rates at fracture surfaces under conditions relevant for in situ mineralization of CO2

Preface

Rate and state frictional and healing behavior of carbonate fault gouge explained using microphysical model

Reaction and transport in wellbore interfaces under CO2 storage conditions: Experiments simulating debonded cement–casing interfaces

Reaction of plagioclase feldspars with CO2 under hydrothermal conditions