Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450861

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0450861

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Role of Hydrous Fluids in Fault Processes: An Experimental Study. The proposed project seeks to understand how hydrothermal reactions in fault zones affect various physical properties such as fault strength and permeability. The project will be conducted by performing high pressure experiments which simulate natural conditions. I will also develop new analytical techniques to characterize the microstructural evolution of faults, with a focus on understanding how any changes alter the hydrologic behaviour of the fault. This study will shed much needed information related to the mechanisms of earthquake nucleation, and to the formation mechanism of fault-hosted gold deposits.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-06-2004

End Date: 20-06-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $206,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geophysics | Structural Geology | Earthquake Seismology | Petrophysics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Earth sciences | "Stone, ceramics and clay materials"

Other Keywords

"Stone, ceramics and clay materials" | Earth sciences | Earthquake Seismology | Geophysics | Petrophysics | Precious (Noble) Metal Ores | Structural Geology

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