Faults and Fluid Flow Research
Faults and Fluid Flow is a collaboration led by Prof. Zoe Shipton and Prof. Becky Lunn from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.
We are a truly multidisciplinary group of researchers with expertise including field characterisation of fault zone architectures, numerical modelling of hydro-mechanical fault zone development and the statistical characterisation of fluid flow through fault zones.
Our aim is to use a range of tools to understand fault zones:
- to predict the mechanical and petrophysical properties of fault zones in the subsurface
- to understand the large-scale controls on fault architectural properties
- statistically characterise both small and large-scale variability of fault zone architectures
- to numerically simulate spatial and temporal evolution of fault damage zones
- to constrain the role of fault-controlled fluid flow on the thermal and chemical structure of the shallow crust
Our work includes studying field sites in the USA, the Canary Isles and Brazil. We examine the range of host rock lithologies from granites and ignimbrites to sandstones and clay-rich rocks.
Please browse our web page to find out more about the group members, some of our collaborators and more information on what we do.
The FAFF team (most of us) at Girvan, March 2009
- The University of Strathclyde, Civil Engineering Department
- The University of Glasgow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
- "Stress controls on faulting, fracturing and igneous intrusion in the Earth's crust: A meeting to commemorate the work of Ernest Masson Anderson" conference, Sept 2010, Glasgow University
