Porosity evolution at the brittle-ductile transition in the continental crust: Implications for deep hydro-geothermal circulation

Abstract Recently, projects have been proposed to engineer deep geothermal reservoirs in the ductile crust. To examine their feasibility, we performed high-temperature (up to 1000 °C), high-pressure (130 MPa) triaxial experiments on granite (initially-intact and shock-cooled samples) in which we mea...

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Main Authors: M. Violay, M. J. Heap, M. Acosta, C. Madonna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08108-5