2000/2001

Dynamics of Fluid Rock Systems

Natural Sciences

Principal investigators

Bjørn Jamtveit

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS

Abstract

Our CAS group represented an extended version of the theoretical part of a major cross-disciplinary NFR-funded geology-physics program first started in 1996, called Fluid-Rock-Interactions. The activities where focused towards the following scientific problems: 1) Pressure solution; 2) Crack healing; 3) Hydrofracturing and deformation assisted fluid flow in rocks; 4) Growth and dissolution processes and its coupling to stress; 5) Hydrothermal vents associated with sill-intrusions in sedimentary basins; 6) Continental margin processes and the formation of microcontinents; and 7) Geological pattern-formation in general.

CAS collaboration resulted in major advances in our research on pressure solution, hydrofracturing, hydrothermal vent generation, the origin of ocean islands and in the coupling between fluid flow and deformation in the Earth’s crust.

Fellows

Hans Erik Foss Amundsen

Dr.
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS

James Alexander Denis Connolly

Privat Dozent
ETH Zürich
Year at CAS
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Dag Kristian Dysthe

Dr.
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS
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Jens G. Feder

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS

Eirik Grude Flekkøy

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS

Torstein F. Jøssang

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS
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Daniel Köhn

Dr.
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS

Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS
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Paul Meakin

Professor
Year at CAS

Enrique Merino

Professor
Indiana University
Year at CAS
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Stephen Andrew Miller

Senior Research Associate
ETH Zürich
Year at CAS

Yuri Podladchikov

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS

Francois Renard

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS
Research Area
Geosciences
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Alan Bruce Thompson

Professor
ETH Zürich
Year at CAS
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Renaud Toussaint

Dr.
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS

News

‘Basic research often leads us in unpredictable directions and to results we could not have guessed long in advance,’ said Bjørn Jamtveit, former CAS project leader and recently appointed member of CAS’ Board of Directors.