# positions[].organizations[].parent[].label
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
My research focuses on experimental rock mechanics, structural geology, ocean drilling sciences, and tectonophysics.

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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Expedition 343, 343t, And Kr13-08 Scientists

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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University of California, Santa Barbara - (Santa Barbara, California, United States)

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On the definition of damage in time-dependent healing models for salt rock

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Micro-mechanical analysis of salt creep tests with a joint-enriched Finite Element model

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IMPLICATIONS FOR MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES OF BRITTLE FAULTS FROM OBSERVATIONS OF THE PUNCHBOWL FAULT ZONE, CALIFORNIA

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Stress state in the largest displacement area of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Deformation Structures From Splay and Decollement Faults in the Nankai Accretionary Prism, SW Japan (IODP NanTroSEIZE Expedition 316): Evidence for Slow and Rapid Slip in Fault Rocks

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Frictional faulting in polycrystalline halite: Correlation of microstructure, mechanisms of slip, and constitutive behavior

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Shear band fabric in gouge, Punchbowl fault, California, U.S.A.

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Characterizing damage evolution and yield surfaces for Berea sandstone under triaxial loading as a function of effective pressure

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Microfracture analysis of fault growth and wear processes, Punchbowl Fault, San Andreas System, California

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Time-Dependent Consolidation in Porous Geomaterials at In Situ Conditions of Temperature and Pressure

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The State of Stress on the Fault Before, During, and After a Major Earthquake

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SAFOD Phase III Core Sampling and Data Management at the Gulf Coast Repository

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Hybrid fracture and the transition from extension fracture to shear fracture.

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New high-speed experiment capability for study of friction

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Hydrothermal deformation of granular quartz sand

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Laboratory deformation of granular quartz sand: Implications for the burial of clastic rocks

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American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages

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Microcrack network development in salt-rock during cyclic loading at low confining pressure

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MULTIMECHANISM FRICTION CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR ULTRAFINE QUARTZ GOUGE AT HYPOCENTRAL CONDITIONS

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Characterizing the Distribution of Temperature and Normal Stress on Flash Heated Granite Surfaces at Seismic Slip Rates

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Dynamic weakening of gouge layers in high-speed shear experiments: Assessment of temperature-dependent friction, thermal pressurization, and flash heating

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Mechanical and hydraulic properties of Nankai accretionary prism sediments: Effect of stress path

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TOHOKU-OKI FAULT ZONE FRICTIONAL HEAT MEASURED During IODP Expeditions 343 and 343T

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Strain decoupling across the decollement in the region of large slip during the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility

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Mechanical behavior and microstructure development in consolidation of nominally dry granular salt

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THE BRITTLE - DUCTILE TRANSITION IN A DEFORMATION-MECHANISM MAP FOR HALITE

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Field Guide to the Punchbowl Fault Zone at Devil's Punchbowl Los Angeles County Park, California

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Subcritical creep compaction of quartz sand at diagenetic conditions: Effects of water and grain size

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Low coseismic friction on the Tohoku-Oki fault determined from temperature measurements.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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San Andreas Fault Zone Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Physical Properties from SAFOD Cuttings and Core

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Micromechanical modeling for rate-dependent behavior of salt rock under cyclic loading

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Displacement and dynamic weakening processes in smectite-rich gouge from the Central Deforming Zone of the San Andreas Fault

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Sediment provenance and controls on slip propagation: Lessons learned from the 2011 Tohoku and other great earthquakes of the subducting northwest Pacific plate

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Seismic slip propagation to the updip end of plate boundary subduction interface faults: Vitrinite reflectance geothermometry on Integrated Ocean Drilling Program NanTro SEIZE cores

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High-speed friction of disaggregated ultracataclasite in rotary shear: Characterization of frictional heating, mechanical behavior, and microstructure evolution

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Constraints on paleofluid sources using the clumped-isotope thermometry of carbonate veins from the SAFOD (San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth) borehole

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Development of a Material-Testing Machine for Study of Friction: Experimental Analysis of Machine Dynamics and Friction of Rock

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Mechanisms of Anisotropy in Salt Rock Upon Microcrack Propagation

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Structure of large-displacement, strike-slip fault zones in the brittle continental crust

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A RHEOLOGIC MODEL FOR WET CRUST APPLIED TO STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS

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Rock deformation: The Logan volume - Preface

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The postearthquake stress state on the Tohoku megathrust as constrained by reanalysis of the JFAST breakout data

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Fracture surface energy of the Punchbowl fault, San Andreas system.

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Coupled Brittle and Viscous Micromechanisms Produce Semibrittle Flow, Grain-Boundary Sliding, and Anelasticity in Salt-Rock

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Progressive illitization in fault gouge caused by seismic slip propagation along a megasplay fault in the Nankai Trough

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Test of the Effective Stress Law for Semibrittle Deformation Using Isostatic and Triaxial Load Paths

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Structure and composition of the plate-boundary slip zone for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDS ABOVE THRUSTS WITH CONSTANT DIP

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Micro-scale vein mineralization and porphyroclast development in low-grade cataclasites, San Gabriel fault, California, U.S.A.

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The thickness of subduction plate boundary faults from the seafloor into the seismogenic zone

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Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST)

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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.

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Towards a general state-variable constitutive relation to describe granular deformation

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Laboratory study of hydrothermal deformation in unconsolidated St Peter quartz sand

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DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION IN SEMI-BRITTLE FAULTS

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NanTroSEIZE Stage 1 expeditions: introduction and synthesis of key results

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In situ frictional properties of San Andreas Fault gouge at SAFOD

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Stress and deformation along wavy frictional faults

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Ultracataclasite structure and friction processes of the Punchbowl fault, San Andreas system, California

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Estimating rock mechanical properties from microrebound measurements

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Fabric evolution and crack propagation in salt during consolidation and cyclic compression tests

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NanTroSEIZE stage 1A: NanTroSEIZE shallow megasplay and frontal thrusts

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EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON FRICTION - CONSTITUTIVE-EQUATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS WITH QUARTZ GOUGE

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Shallow seismic profiling of the exhumed Punchbowl fault zone, southern California

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Deformation structures in the frontal prism near the Japan Trench: Insights from sandbox models

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Tectonostratigraphy and processes of frontal accretion with horst-graben subduction at the Japan Trench

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Stress-dependent transport properties of fractured arkosic sandstone

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COMPOSITE PLANAR FABRIC OF GOUGE FROM THE PUNCHBOWL FAULT, CALIFORNIA

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Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST)

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Low coseismic shear stress on the Tohoku-Oki megathrust determined from laboratory experiments.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Cataclastic to crystal-plastic transition in halite shear zones

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Subcritical compaction and yielding of granular quartz sand

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Investigating Dynamic Weakening in Laboratory Faults Using Multi-Scale Flash Heating Coupled With mm-Scale Contact Evolution

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Stiffness and deformation of salt rock subject to anisotropic damage and temperature-dependent healing

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Investigation of the Huge Tsunami from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki, Japan, Earthquake Using Ocean Floor Boreholes to the Fault Zone

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Experimental characterization of microstructure development for calculating fabric and stiffness tensors in salt rock

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INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND WEAKENING MECHANISMS OF THE SAN-ANDREAS FAULT

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Micromechanisms of creep in clay-rich gouge from the Central Deforming Zone of the San Andreas Fault

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The State of Stress on the Fault Before, During, and After a Major Earthquake

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DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A HIGH LOAD, HIGH-SPEED ACTUATOR FOR ROCK DEFORMATION EXPERIMENTATION

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Mechanisms of compaction of quartz sand at diagenetic conditions

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Interactions between deformation and fluids in the frontal thrust region of the NanTroSEIZE transect offshore the Kii Peninsula, Japan: Results from IODP Expedition 316 Sites C0006 and C0007

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Lithology and internal structure of the San Andreas fault at depth. based on characterization of Phase 3 whole-rock core in the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) borehole

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FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION IN FAULTS OF THE SAN-ANDREAS SYSTEM - INFERENCES FROM SAN-GABRIEL FAULT ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY AND MICROSTRUCTURES

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Structure and lithology of the Japan Trench subduction plate boundary fault

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Mri: Development of A High Pressure and Temperature, Biaxial Deformation Apparatus for Earthquake and Landslide Studies

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Laboratory Technician Support: Enhancing Access to the John W. Handin Laboratory for Experimental Rock Deformation

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Salt Rock Microstructure and Deformation

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Geology; 3115 TAMU

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Becker, Andrew 1987- (2012-08). Off-fault Damage Associated with a Localized Bend in the North Branch San Gabriel Fault, California. Master's Thesis.

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Choens II, Robert C. (2011-02). Characterizing Damage Evolution and Yield in Sandstone Under Triaxial Loading as a Function of Various Effective Pressure. Master's Thesis.

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Choens, Robert Charles (2015-10). Predictions of Induced Brittle Failure in Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Dilci, Gokturk Mehmet (2010-10). Effect of Load Path on Mode of Failure at the Brittle-ductile Transition in Well-sorted Aggregates of St. Peter Sand. Master's Thesis.

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Kitajima, Hiroko (2012-02). Evolution of Frictional Behavior of Punchbowl Fault Gouges Sheared at Seismic Slip Rates and Mechanical and Hydraulic Properties of Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism Sediments Deformed at Different Loading Paths. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Heron, Bretani (2012-02). Grain-scale Comminution and Alteration of Arkosic Rocks in the Damage Zone of the San Andreas Fault at SAFOD. Master's Thesis.

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Herrin, Elizabeth Anne (2009-05). Experimental study of shear and compaction band formation in berea sandstone. Master's Thesis.

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Bobich, Jennifer Kay (2005-11). Experimental analysis of the extension to shear fracture transition in Berea Sandstone. Master's Thesis.

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Coble, Clayton Gage (2012-02). Frictional Strength of the Creeping Segment of the San Andreas Fault. Master's Thesis.

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Da Silva Rodriguez, Elizabeth (2018-07). Structure and in Situ Stress Analysis of the Tazhong Uplift, NW China: Implications for Fault Reactivation. Master's Thesis.

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Gallegos, Dana Lu (2019-01). Determination of Marine Sediment Strength at Depth from IODP Drilling Data, NanTroSEIZE Transect. Master's Thesis.

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Kanaya, Takamasa (2007-04). Structure and kinematics of the Suzume fault, Okitsu melange, Shimanto accretionary complex, Japan. Master's Thesis.

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Unal, Ahmet (2018-03). The Effect of Deformation on Clumped Isotope Concentration in Calcite. Master's Thesis.

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Ding, Jihui (2019-02). Grain Boundary Processes, Anelasticity, and Test of the Effective Stress Law for Semibrittle Deformation of Synthetic Salt-Rocks. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Nieto Camargo, Jorge Enrique (2005-02). Permeability characterization of shear zones in the Hickory sandstone member, Riley Formation, Texas. Master's Thesis.

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French, Melodie Ellen Lynds (2014-10). Microphysical Controls on the Strength and Transport Properties of Fault Zones. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Loftin, Aileen (2014-09). Fabric Analysis of Survivor Clasts in the Southwest Deforming Zone of the San Andreas Fault at Three Kilometers Depth. Master's Thesis.