Member Since 2005
Sylvain Barbot
Asst Prof, University of Southern California
Member, Tectonophysics Fall Meeting Program Committee; Member, Fall Meeting Program Committee; Fall Meeting Program Representative, Tectonophysics Executive Committee
Professional Experience
University of Southern California
Asst Prof
Education
Doctorate
2009
Honors & Awards
Publications
Thermobaric Activation of Fault Friction
The constitutive behavior of faults intervenes in virtually every aspect of the seismic phenomenon but is poorly understood, particularly regarding...
March 23, 2025
Impact of Upper‐Plate Faulting on Megathrust Foreshocks: Ins...
February 05, 2025
Transient and Steady‐State Friction in Non‐Isobaric Conditio...
February 15, 2024
Constitutive Behavior of Olivine Gouge Across the Brittle‐Du...
December 13, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Earthquake pump as an elevator for microbiomes in the accretionary prisms of subduction zones
ECOHYDROLOGY AND BIOGEOMORPHOLOGY: HOW BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC INTERACTIONS CAN SHAPE LANDSCAPES AND ECOSYSTEMS ACROSS SCALES I POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2024
Zhengze Li, Sylvain Barbot, Karen G. Lloyd
The change in atmospheric composition during the Great Oxidation Event paved the way for the most dramatic episodes of climate change in Earths histor...
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Slip Rate- and State-dependent Friction Properties of Plutonic Outcrops near the Southern San Andreas Fault under Hydrothermal Conditions
CRUSTAL DEFORMATION AND HETEROGENEITY FROM LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS TO LARGE EARTHQUAKE CYCLES I POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 12 december 2024
aoning Wu, Sylvain Barbot, Lei Zhang, Wenming Yao,...
Plutonic rocks of various origins constitute a significant portion of the medium surrounding the southern San Andreas Fault below mid-crustal depths. ...
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Does the direct effect of friction increase continuously with absolute temperature?
MECHANISMS OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK FAILURE AND FRICTION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE II POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 10 december 2024
Sylvain Barbot
Constitutive models of fault friction form the basis of physics-based simulations of seismic activity. A generally accepted framework for the slip-rat...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - Present
Member
Fall Meeting Program Committee
2023 - Present
Member
Tectonophysics Fall Meeting Program Committee
2023 - 2026
Fall Meeting Program Representative
Tectonophysics Executive Committee
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