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Melodie E. French
Assistant Professor, Rice University
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Effects of Dilatant Hardening on Fault Stabilization and Structural Development
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
15 may 2024
Stewart A. Williams, Melodie E. French
Dilatant hardening is one proposed mechanism that causes slow earthquakes along faults. Previous experiments and models show that dilatant hardenin...
Path and Slip Dependent Behavior of Shallow Subduction Shear Zones During Fluid Overpressure
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
13 april 2024
Benjamin Belzer, Melodie E. French
Elevated pore fluid pressure is proposed to contribute to slow earthquakes along shallow subduction plate boundaries. However, the processes that c...
Geothermometry and Paleopiezometry Analysis Reveals Deformation and Temperature Conditions in the Sestola-Vidiciatico Unit of the Northern Apennines, Italy
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS V ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2023
Claire Rubin, Stewart A. Williams, Melodie E. Fren...
At low pressures and temperatures, calcite deforms via intracrystalline twinning. Calcite twin incidence, density, and morphology can serve as a geoth...
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Paleostress conditions within the Sestola-Vidiciatico Unit in the Northern Apennines, an exhumed shallow subduction system, determined using calcite deformation twins
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Stewart A. Williams, Melodie E. French, Claire Rub...
Understanding the stress conditions of active subduction zones has been a longstanding hurdle with critical implications for natural disasters as stre...
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Feedbacks between deformation and potassic metasomatism of altered oceanic crust in the Rodeo Cove thrust zone, California
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Benjamin Belzer, Melodie E. French, Noah J. Philli...
Studies of exhumed subduction shear zones indicate that metamorphism and metasomatism of oceanic lithosphere during subduction play a significant part...
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Diagenetic Controls on Fault Zone Structure along the Sestola-Vidiciatico Unit, an Analog for the Shallow Subduction Megathrust
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS I POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Emory Mckenzie, Melodie E. French, Stewart A. Will...
Along the subduction megathrust, the up-dip limit of the seismogenic zone is thought to occur at 100 to 150 °C and the shallower region hosts div...
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Frictional Properties of Pelagic Sediments from the Northern Hikurangi Margin and Possible Implication for Fault Slip and Slip Cycles
BRIDGING FIELD AND LABORATORY STUDIES TO UNVEIL THE MECHANISMS OF UNSTABLE FAULT SLIP II POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Edgar Villegas, Melodie E. French, Julia Morgan
The northern Hikurangi margin hosts multiple modes of fault slip at shallow depths (<6 km), including tsunamigenic earthquakes and slow slip events...
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SZ4D GeoArray: Collaborative Research Opportunities for the Field Geosciences
ADVANCING SUBDUCTION ZONE SCIENCE: COLLABORATING ACROSS BORDERS AND CULTURES ELIGHTNING
natural hazards | 12 december 2023
Christine Regalla, Samuel C. Nyarko, Mike Brudzins...
The Subduction Zones in 4 Dimensions (SZ4D) initiative seeks to understand the scientific processes that underlie subduction zones hazards. Answering ...
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