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

# overview
My research interests span topics in structural geology, mineral physics, and solid earth geophysics with emphasis placed on the mechanical properties of Earth materials and the deformation mechanisms that govern rheology. Specific research topics have addressed the

plasticity, creep, and failure of minerals and rocks, examining the roles of crystalline defects, grain boundaries, interfaces, and fluids in determining macroscopic behavior. Taking an experimental approach, I have examined the effects of fluids, defect chemistry, and diffusional kinetics on mechanical behavior with current studies including the deformation of carbonates,

compactional creep of porous quartz aggregates, the role of crack healing in restrengthening rocks, and hydrolytic weakening of silicates.

# keywords[]
4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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Numerical Inversion Of The Laplace Transform

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Brown University - (Providence, Rhode Island, United States)

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

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Brown University - (Providence, Rhode Island, United States)

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Distinguished Achievement Award, The

# publications[].label
BASAL SLIP AND MECHANICAL ANISOTROPY OF BIOTITE

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FLUID-ROCK REACTION WEAKENING OF FAULT ZONES

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Accurate differential stress measurement using the molten salt cell and solid salt assemblies in the Griggs apparatus with applications to strength, piezometers and rheology

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Control of fluids on deformation of rocks

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Permeability of Wilcox shale and its effective pressure law

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Deformation of clinopyroxenite: Evidence for a transition in flow mechanisms and semibrittle behavior

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Plasticity and diffusion creep of dolomite

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Mechanical anisotropy of gneiss: Failure criterion and textural sources of directional behavior

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Carbon deposition during brittle rock deformation: Changes in electrical properties of fault zones and potential geoelectric phenomena during earthquakes

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RHEOLOGY OF THE LITHOSPHERE - SELECTED TOPICS

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EXPERIMENTAL DEFORMATION OF SHALE - MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES AND MICROSTRUCTURAL INDICATORS OF MECHANISMS

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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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Quartz preferred orientations within a deformed pebble conglomerate from New Hampshire, U.S.A.

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Hydrogen defects in -Al2O3 and water weakening of sapphire and alumina ceramics between 600 and 1000C -: I. -: Infrared characterization of defects

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Dislocation creep of polycrystalline dolomite

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Carbonates and intermediate-depth seismicity: Stable and unstable shear in altered subducting plates and overlying mantle.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Permeability of illite-bearing shale: 2. Influence of fluid chemistry on flow and functionally connected pores

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Plastic deformation of WCCo at high confining pressure

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Carbon and oxygen diffusion in calcite: Effects of Mn content and PH2O

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

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IONIC-CONDUCTIVITY OF QUARTZ - DC TIME-DEPENDENCE AND TRANSITION IN CHARGE-CARRIERS

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Grain growth kinetics of dolomite, magnesite and calcite: a comparative study

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Modelling poroelastic hollow cylinder experiments with realistic boundary conditions

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Permeability of illite-bearing shale: 1. Anisotropy and effects of clay content and loading

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FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED-SPECTROSCOPY DETERMINATIONS OF INTRAGRANULAR WATER-CONTENT IN QUARTZ-BEARING ROCKS - IMPLICATIONS FOR HYDROLYTIC WEAKENING IN THE LABORATORY AND WITHIN THE EARTH

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Flow strengths of quartz aggregates: Grain size and pressure effects due to hydrolytic weakening

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Deformation microstructures of Barre granite: An optical, Sem and Tem study

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

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STRENGTH AND ANISOTROPY OF FOLIATED ROCKS WITH VARIED MICA CONTENTS

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Argon loss during deformation of micas: constraints from laboratory deformation experiments

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Microstructural evolution during strain localization in dolomite aggregates

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Solubility and diffusional uptake of hydrogen in quartz at high water pressures: Implications for hydrolytic weakening

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Laboratory study of hydrothermal deformation in unconsolidated St Peter quartz sand

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DISLOCATION INTERACTIONS IN EXPERIMENTALLY DEFORMED BIOTITE

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Deformation of Fine-Grained Quartz Aggregates by Mixed Diffusion and Dislocation Creep

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DEFORMATION OF WILCOX SHALE - UNDRAINED STRENGTHS AND EFFECTS OF STRAIN-RATE

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RHEOLOGY AND DEFORMATION MECHANISMS OF AN ISOTROPIC MICA SCHIST

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Symposium probes materials science approaches in geophysics

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Hydrogen defects in -Al2O3 and water weakening of sapphire and alumina ceramics between 600 and 1000C -: II. -: Mechanical properties

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Deformation microstructures in experimentally deformed Maryland diabase

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The instantaneous rate dependence in low temperature laboratory rock friction and rock deformation experiments

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The effect of varying water contents on the creep behavior of Heavitree quartzite

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High pressure deformation experiments using solid confining media and Griggs piston-cylinder methods: Appraisal of stress and deformation in talc assemblies

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Hydrolytic weakening and penetrative deformation within a natural shear zone

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Subcritical compaction and yielding of granular quartz sand

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Fluids and structures in fold and thrust belts with recognition of the work of David Wiltschko

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Reply to the comment by Robert H. Doremus on "Stationary and mobile hydrogen defects in potassium feldspar"

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Stationary and mobile hydrogen defects in potassium feldspar

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MECHANISMS OF FRACTURE PROPAGATION IN EXPERIMENTALLY EXTENDED SIOUX QUARTZITE

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HYDROGEN SPECIATION AND CHEMICAL WEAKENING OF QUARTZ

# publications[].label
Probing the Earth's strength: Can we measure small stress at high pressure?

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Collaborative Research: Magnesite Deformation and Potential Roles in the Slip and Seismicity of Subduction Zones

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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A reversible rheology for water-weakened quartz

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
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

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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NSF: Collaborative Research: Deformation Thermometry and Water Weakening of Quartz Tectonites-Case Studies From the Himalaya

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Geology; 3115 TAMU

# organizations[]
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# schools[]
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# etdChairOf[].label
Ulrich, Christopher A (2015-12). Deformation Mechanisms and Microstructures of Experimentally Deformed Magnesite. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Goodson, Kyle (2014-08). Penetrative Deformation of Dolostones during Contact Metamorphism and the Forceful Emplacement of the Tungstonia Granite, Kern Mountains, Nevada. Master's Thesis.