# overview
My research focuses on the deformation and alteration reactions during faulting, the importance to earthquake nucleation and rupture propagation in the continental crust, mechanisms of creep compaction of reservoir rock, and the mechanics of fold-fault interaction in anisotropic rock.

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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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 Los Angeles - (Los Angeles, California, United States)

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Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service to the fields of Geodesy, Seismology, or Tectonophysics

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Mollie B. & Richard A. Williford Professor in Petroleum Geology (2019-2023)

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Montague Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Scholar

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

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

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Multiscale Seismic Models of Complex Fracture Networks

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American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages

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FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDS ABOVE THRUSTS WITH CONSTANT DIP

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Comparison of thrust fault rock models to basement-cored folds in the Rocky Mountain foreland

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Characterization of Damage in Sandstones along the Mojave Section of the San Andreas Fault: Implications for the Shallow Extent of Damage Generation

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Geometry and kinematics of a passive-roof duplex in the interior of the Idaho-Wyoming-northern Utah thrust belt

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

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Stress distribution and failure in anisotropic rock near a bend on a weak fault

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Laboratory study of hydrothermal deformation in unconsolidated St Peter quartz sand

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In situ frictional properties of San Andreas Fault gouge at SAFOD

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

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

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

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Stress and deformation along wavy frictional faults

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Localized Slip and Associated Fluidized Structures Record Seismic Slip in Clay-Rich Fault Gouge

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

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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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Hydrothermal deformation of granular quartz sand

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

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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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Paleoseismology study northwest of the New Madrid seismic zone

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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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Stress-dependent transport properties of fractured arkosic sandstone

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

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Scientific Drilling Into the San Andreas Fault Zone  An Overview of SAFOD's First Five Years

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Subcritical compaction and yielding of granular quartz sand

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Characterization of pulverized granitoids in a shallow core along the San Andreas Fault, Littlerock, CA

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INFLUENCE OF LAYERING AND BOUNDARY-CONDITIONS ON FAULT-BEND AND FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDING

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

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Mechanical stratigraphy and fault-fold interaction, Absaroka thrust sheet, Salt River Range, Wyoming

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

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

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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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Laboratory Sharing to Improve Rock Deformation Research

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

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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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Mechanisms of compaction of quartz sand at diagenetic conditions

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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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GEOMETRY AND FRACTURE DISTRIBUTION IN FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDS IN NATURE AND EXPERIMENTS

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

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

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Mechanisms of Anisotropy in Salt Rock Upon Microcrack Propagation

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

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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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EarthScope SAFOD Management Office for Physical Samples

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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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Chester Receives 2019 Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service

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2019 AGU Section Awardees and Named Lecturers

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Judith Chester Named AGU Section Awardee

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Xu, Guangjian (2019-08). Mechanical Stratigraphic Model of the Eagle Ford Formation, South and West Texas. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Elizondo Ugarte, Daniel Fernando (2016-12). Subsidiary Fault Kinematics and Displacement Transfer at the Mill Creek-Mission Creek Fault Stepover, San Bernardino Mountains, California. Master's Thesis.