47221-AC8
Petrophysical Controls on Fault Damage Zone Width and Character: As Important as Displacement?
In the past year, we conducted a national search for a graduate student to study petrophysical controls on fault-zone deformation. We were successful in recruiting two excellent candidates, and subsequently chose the one most suited by interest and background to this specific research project. John Schneider received his B.S. degree from Columbia University, where he completed both a senior research project and additional research with Mark Anders and Chris Scholz. He is co-author of a paper currently in press in the Journal of Structural Geology. This experience in both structural geology and geophysics prepared John well for our integrated study. John started as a research assistant at UW-Madison August 25, 2008. We spent five days in the field at Teapot Dome in late August, returning with a suite of samples and associated data on fault damage zone widths and fracture/deformation band spacing within the damage zones. John is beginning to reduce his data and prepare samples for thin sections and ultrasonic velocity measurements. Because we were not able to start a student on this research project until nearly a year into the funding period, we will be requesting a one-year, no-cost extension to our grant.
