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Demian M. Saffer
Director, University of Texas at Austin
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Insights into the physics of earthquake rupture from a 1-meter earthquake machine
RUPTURE AND DEFORMATION PROCESSES, FROM SLOW TO FAST AND FROM MICRO TO MACRO III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
David C. Bolton, Srisharan Shreedharan, Kaitlin S...
We have recently designed and built a large (~ 1 m) direct shear apparatus at the University of Texas at Austin to investigate the spatiotemporal evol...
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Seafloor observations of a 2022 shallow slow slip event in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone offshore Gisborne
RECENT APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN SEAFLOOR GEODESY II POSTER
geodesy | 14 december 2023
Erik K. Fredrickson, Laura M. Wallace, Yoshihiro I...
Slow slip events have been found to occur regularly in the offshore reaches of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone off New Zealands north island. Surface de...
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Consolidation behavior of volcaniclastic sediments: Implications for dewatering of sediments along the Northern Hikurangi Subduction Margin
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS I POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Peter Miller, Demian M. Saffer
The physical properties of oceanic sediments subducted and entrained along the decollement play a key role in controlling mechanical properties and in...
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Revisiting stress determinations from borehole breakouts at subduction zones: the role of plastic failure
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS III ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Kaitlin Schaible, Mahdi Heidari, Demian M. Saffer,...
Stress is the fundamental driver of faulting and earthquakes. Quantitative measurements of stress and its spatial-temporal distribution is therefore c...
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Insights into the occurrence and characteristics of near-trench megathrust slip behavior at the Hikurangi subduction zone from almost a decade of seafloor geodetic experiments
RECENT APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN SEAFLOOR GEODESY I ORAL
geodesy | 14 december 2023
Laura M. Wallace, Spahr C. Webb, John B. DeSanto, ...
Resolving the distribution of interseismic coupling and transient slow slip event (SSE) processes at offshore subduction zones is hampered by the diff...
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Predicting Boron Sorption on Aluminosilicate Minerals as Functions of Temperature and pH
ADVANCES IN TRACER METHODS AND MODELING OF HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES, CHEMICAL WEATHERING, AND HYDROCHRONOLOGY I POSTER
hydrology | 14 december 2023
Nicole Ferrie, Dan Breecker, Demian M. Saffer, Jef...
Boron sorption on aluminosilicate minerals is a function of pH, temperature, and lithology. These characteristics underpin the utility of boron as a t...
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Influence of Upper-Plate Splay Faults on the Stress Distribution in Accreting Sediments: Insights from Geomechanical Models
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Graciela Lopez Campos, Maria A. Nikolinakou, Peter...
We study the influence of an upper-plate splay fault on the stress state of accreting sediments under large-scale deformation. We analyze how the stre...
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Studying the Coupled Deformation and Fluid Flow Processes at the Northern Hikurangi Subduction Zone
CONTROL OF FAULT ZONE HETEROGENEITY AND FAULT ROUGHNESS ON MULTISCALE DEFORMATION AT INTER- AND INTRAPLATE FAULT ZONES II POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Tianhaozhe Sun, Demian M. Saffer, Susan M. Ellis, ...
Deformation and fluid flow processes are closely interconnected at subduction zones. In the outer forearc, the rapid loading of high-porosity sediment...
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