Publications
2026
Scholarly publications
Shinohara, T., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2026). Microphysics of Time-Dependent Deformation of Clay-Bearing Sandstone: Grain Shape Matters. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. Advance online publication. [DOI]
2025
Scholarly publications
Shinohara, T., Verberne, B. A., Spiers, C. J., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2025). Rate-dependent inelastic deformation of Slochteren sandstone: implication for reservoir compaction in the Groningen gas field. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 11(1), Article 83. [DOI] [Portal]
Shinohara, T., Thieulot, C., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2025). Non-Hertzian Stress Fields in Simulated Porous Sandstone Grains and Implications for Compactive Brittle Failure-A High-Resolution FEM Approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(6), Article e2024JB030818. [DOI] [Portal]
2024
Scholarly publications
Lei, H., Niemeijer, A. R., Zhou, Y., & Spiers, C. J. (2024). Frictional Properties of Natural Granite Fault Gouge Under Hydrothermal Conditions: A Case Study of Strike-Slip Fault From Anninghe Fault Zone, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(8), Article e2024JB028760. [DOI] [Portal]
2023
Scholarly publications
Bérest, P., Gharbi, H., Blanco-Martín, L., Brouard, B., Brückner, D., DeVries, K. L., Hévin, G., Hofer, G., Spiers, C. J., & Urai, J. L. (2023). Salt Creep: Transition Between the Low and High Stress Domains. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 56(11), 8305-8316. [DOI] [Repository]
Zand, F., Hangx, S. J. T., Spiers, C. J., van den Brink, P. J., Burns, J., Boebinger, M. G., Poplawsky, J. D., Monai, M., & Weckhuysen, B. M. (2023). Elucidating the Structure and Composition of Individual Bimetallic Nanoparticles in Supported Catalysts by Atom Probe Tomography. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(31), 17299-17308. [DOI] [Repository]
Chen, J., Hunfeld, L. B., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2023). Fault Weakening During Short Seismic Slip Pulse Experiments: The Role of Pressurized Water and Implications for Induced Earthquakes in the Groningen Gas Field. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(2), Article e2022JB025729. [DOI] [Repository]
Okuda, H., Niemeijer, A. R., Takahashi, M., Yamaguchi, A., & Spiers, C. J. (2023). Hydrothermal Friction Experiments on Simulated Basaltic Fault Gouge and Implications for Megathrust Earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(1), Article e2022JB025072. [DOI] [Repository]
Zhang, M., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2023). Effect of CO2-H2O-Smectite Interactions on Permeability of Clay-Rich Rocks Under CO2 Storage Conditions. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 56(5), 3451-3474. [DOI] [Repository]
Ndayishimiye, A., Bang, S. H., Spiers, C. J., & Randall, C. A. (2023). Reassessing cold sintering in the framework of pressure solution theory. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 43(1), 1-13. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
Chen, J., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2022). Seismic Fault Slip Behavior Predicted From Internal Microphysical Processes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(11), Article e2022JB024530. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, J., & Spiers, C. J. (2022). Permeability of Bituminous Coal to CH4 and CO2 Under Fixed Volume and Fixed Stress Boundary Conditions: Effects of Sorption. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, Article 877024. [DOI] [Repository]
Zhang, M., Spiers, C. J., Liu, J., & Zhou, H. (2022). Stress-Strain-Sorption Behaviour of Smectites Upon Exposure to Dry and Wet CO2. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, Article 911247. [DOI] [Repository]
Friedenberg, L., Bartol, J., Bean, J., Czaikowski, O., Düsterloh, U., Gartzke, A.-K., Hangx, S., Laurich, B., Lerch, C., Lerche, S., Lippmann-Pipke, J., Liu, W., Lüdeling, C., Mills, M., Müller-Hoeppe, N., Popp, T., Rabbel, O., Rahmig, M., Reedlunn, B., ... Zhao, J. (2022). Compaction of crushed salt for safe containment: Overview of phase 2 of the KOMPASS project. In J. H. P. D. Bresser, M. R. Drury, P. A. Fokker, M. Gazzani, S. J. T. Hangx, A. R. Niemeijer, & C. J. Spiers (Eds.), The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 06-08 July 2022 (1 ed., pp. 283-291). CRC Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Muhammad, N., de Bresser, J. H. P., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2022). Creep behaviour of bischofite, carnallite and mixed bischofite-carnallite-halite salt rock at in situ conditions. In J. H. P. D. Bresser, M. R. Drury, P. A. Fokker, M. Gazzani, S. J. T. Hangx, A. R. Niemeijer, & C. J. Spiers (Eds.), The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 06-08 July 2022 (1 ed., pp. 212-223). CRC Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Muhammad, N., de Bresser, J. H. P., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2022). A composite flow law for wet polycrystalline halite to capture the transition from dislocation creep to solution-precipitation creep. In J. H. P. D. Bresser, M. R. Drury, P. A. Fokker, M. Gazzani, S. J. T. Hangx, A. R. Niemeijer, & C. J. Spiers (Eds.), The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 06-08 July 2022 (1 ed., pp. 141-152). CRC Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Niemeijer, A., van den Ende, M., Spiers, C., & Marone, C. (2022). A review of frictional sliding on brine-penetrated faults in salt. In J. H. P. D. Bresser, M. R. Drury, P. A. Fokker, M. Gazzani, S. J. T. Hangx, A. R. Niemeijer, & C. J. Spiers (Eds.), The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 06-08 July 2022 (1 ed., pp. 38-45). CRC Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Ji, Y., Spiers, C. J., Hangx, S. J. T., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Drury, M. R. (2022). 4D microtomography of brine-assisted healing processes in deformation-damaged rocksalt: A first look. In J. H. P. D. Bresser, M. R. Drury, P. A. Fokker, M. Gazzani, S. J. T. Hangx, A. R. Niemeijer, & C. J. Spiers (Eds.), The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 06-08 July 2022 (1 ed., pp. 88-97). CRC Press. [DOI] [Repository]
van Oosterhout, B. G. A., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2022). A threshold stress for pressure solution creep in rock salt: Model predictions vs. observations. In J. H. P. D. Bresser, M. R. Drury, P. A. Fokker, M. Gazzani, S. J. T. Hangx, A. R. Niemeijer, & C. J. Spiers (Eds.), The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 06-08 July 2022 (1 ed., pp. 57-67). CRC Press. [DOI] [Repository]
van Oosterhout, B. G. A., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2022). Mechanisms of dilatancy in rock salt at the grain-scale and implications for the dilatancy boundary. In J. H. P. D. Bresser, M. R. Drury, P. A. Fokker, M. Gazzani, S. J. T. Hangx, A. R. Niemeijer, & C. J. Spiers (Eds.), The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 06-08 July 2022 (1 ed., pp. 25-37). CRC Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Van Stappen, J. F., McBeck, J. A., Cordonnier, B., Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Renard, F., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2022). 4D Synchrotron X-ray Imaging of Grain Scale Deformation Mechanisms in a Seismogenic Gas Reservoir Sandstone During Axial Compaction. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 55(8), 4697-4715. [DOI] [Repository]
de Bresser, J. H. P., Drury, M. R., Fokker, P. A., Gazzani, M., Hangx, S. J. T., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (Eds.) (2022). The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech X), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 06-08 July 2022. (1 ed.) CRC Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2022). Effect of pore fluid chemistry on uniaxial compaction creep of Bentheim sandstone and implications for reservoir injection operations. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 29, 1-20. Article 100272. [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
Ramesh Kumar, K., Makhmutov, A., Spiers, C. J., & Hajibeygi, H. (2021). Geomechanical simulation of energy storage in salt formations. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 19640. [DOI] [Repository]
Mehranpour, M. H., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2021). Compaction of the Groningen Gas Reservoir Sandstone: Discrete Element Modeling Using Microphysically Based Grain-Scale Interaction Laws. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(9), 1-23. Article e2021JB021722. [DOI] [Repository]
Schutjens, P. M., Spiers, C., & Niemeijer, A. (2021). Surface microstructures developed on polished quartz crystals embedded in wet quartz sand compacted under hydrothermal conditions. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-12. Article 14920. [DOI] [Repository]
Pijnenburg, R., Laumann, S., Wessels, R., ter Maat, G., Armstrong, L., Bieńkowski, J., Sleeman, R., Vardon, P., Bruhn, D., Barnhoorn, A., Niemeijer, A., Plümper, O., Willingshofer, E., Spiers, C., Wapenaar, K., Trampert, J., & Drury, M. (2021). EPOS-NL is the Dutch solid earth science infrastructure for research on georesources and geohazards. Paper presented at 1st EAGE Workshop on Induced Seismicity, EAGE GeoTech 2021, Virtual, Online. [DOI]
Hunfeld, L. B., Chen, J., Niemeijer, A. R., Ma, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2021). Seismic Slip-Pulse Experiments Simulate Induced Earthquake Rupture in the Groningen Gas Field. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(11), Article e2021GL092417. [DOI] [Repository]
Chen, J., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2021). Microphysical Modeling of Carbonate Fault Friction at Slip Rates Spanning the Full Seismic Cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(3), 1-24. Article e2020JB021024. [DOI] [Repository]
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Cornelissen, E. K., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2021). Impact of downhole pressure and fluid-access on the effectiveness of wellbore cement expansion additives. Cement and Concrete Research, 147, 1-16. Article 106514. [DOI] [Repository]
Buijze, L., Guo, Y., Niemeijer, A. R., Ma, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2021). Effects of heterogeneous gouge segments on the slip behavior of experimental faults at dm scale. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 554, Article 116652. [DOI] [Repository]
Verberne, B. A., Hangx, S. J. T., Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Hamers, M. F., Drury, M. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2021). Drill core from seismically active sandstone gas reservoir yields clues to internal deformation mechanisms. Geology, 49(5), 483-487. [DOI] [Repository]
Vernooij, R., Siqueira, T. D. A., Hangx, S., Spiers, C., Ketzer, M., & Iglesias, R. S. (2021). CO2-water-rock interactions in undeformed and sheared claystone caprocks from Northern Europe. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 11(2), 232-250. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Matsuzawa, T., Shimizu, I., Nishimura, T., Spiers, C. J., Nakajima, J., & Kawamoto, T. (2021). Special issue "Crustal dynamics: toward integrated view of island arc seismogenesis". Earth, Planets and Space, 73(1), 1-4. Article 32. [DOI] [Repository]
2020
Scholarly publications
Pijnenburg, R. P. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). Microphysics of Inelastic Deformation in Reservoir Sandstones from the Seismogenic Center of the Groningen Gas Field. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 53(12), 5301-5328. [DOI] [Repository]
Fan, C., Liu, J., Hunfeld, L. B., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). Frictional slip weakening and shear-enhanced crystallinity in simulated coal fault gouges at slow slip rates. Solid Earth, 11(4), 1399-1422. Article 68. [DOI] [Repository]
Verberne, B. A., Van Den Ende, M. P. A., Chen, J., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). The physics of fault friction: Insights from experiments on simulated gouges at low shearing velocities. Solid Earth, 11(6), 2075-2095. Article 100. [DOI] [Repository]
den Hartog, S. A. M., Faulkner, D. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). Low Friction Coefficient of Phyllosilicate Fault Gouges and the Effect of Humidity: Insights From a New Microphysical Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(6), Article e2019JB018683. [DOI] [Repository]
Hunfeld, L. B., Chen, J., Hol, S., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). Healing Behavior of Simulated Fault Gouges From the Groningen Gas Field and Implications for Induced Fault Reactivation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(7), Article e2019JB018790. [DOI] [Repository]
Buijze, L., Guo, Y., Niemeijer, A. R., Ma, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). Nucleation of Stick-Slip Instability Within a Large-Scale Experimental Fault: Effects of Stress Heterogeneities Due to Loading and Gouge Layer Compaction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(8), Article e2019JB018429. [DOI] [Repository]
Van Stappen, J. F., Houben, M. E., Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Tengattini, A., Shinohara, T., Teuling, F. S. R., Zhang, M., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2020). Visualization of localized deformation and fluid flow in sedimentary rocks. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2020. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, J., Wolterbeek, T. K. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). Volumetric response of crushed dunite during carbonation reaction under controlled σ-PT conditions. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2020. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, J., Hunfeld, L. B., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). Frictional properties of simulated shale-coal fault gouges: Implications for induced seismicity in source rocks below Europe's largest gas field. International Journal of Coal Geology, 226, Article 103499. [DOI] [Repository]
Okamoto, A. S., Niemeijer, A. R., Takeshita, T., Verberne, B. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2020). Frictional properties of actinolite-chlorite gouge at hydrothermal conditions. Tectonophysics, 779, Article 228377. [DOI] [Repository]
Gabrielli, P., Poluzzi, A., Kramer, G. J., Spiers, C., Mazzotti, M., & Gazzani, M. (2020). Seasonal energy storage for zero-emissions multi-energy systems via underground hydrogen storage. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 121, Article 109629. [DOI] [Repository]
2019
Scholarly publications
Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Verberne, B. A., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2019). Intergranular Clay Films Control Inelastic Deformation in the Groningen Gas Reservoir: Evidence From Split-Cylinder Deformation Tests. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(12), 12679-12702. [DOI] [Repository]
Mehranpour, M. H., Saadatfar, M., van Stappen, J. F., Cnudde, V., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2019). Measuring intergranular force in granular media. Abstract from International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. [Repository]
van Stappen, J. F., McBeck, J. A., Benoit, C., Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Renard, F., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2019). Understanding strain-accommodating processes in depleted sandstone gas reservoirs through in-situ triaxial testing and X-ray CT imaging. Poster session presented at Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands.
van Stappen, J. F., McBeck, J. A., Boone, M., Benoit, C., Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Renard, F., Cnudde, V., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2019). Understanding deformation in depleted sandstone gas reservoirs: a micro-CT study of in-situ triaxial and uniaxial experiments. Abstract from International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
van Stappen, J. F., McBeck, J. A., Benoit, C., Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Renard, F., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2019). Understanding strain-accommodating processes in depleted sandstone gas reservoirs through in-situ triaxial testing and X-ray CT imaging. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2019). Influence of Grain Boundary Structural Evolution on Pressure Solution Creep Rates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(10), 10210-10230. [DOI] [Repository]
Bérest, P., Gharbi, H., Brouard, B., Brückner, D., DeVries, K., Hévin, G., Hofer, G., Spiers, C., & Urai, J. (2019). Very Slow Creep Tests on Salt Samples. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 52, 2917-2934. [DOI] [Repository]
Verberne, B. A., Plümper, O., & Spiers, C. J. (2019). Nanocrystalline principal slip zones and their role in controlling crustal fault rheology. Minerals, 9(6), Article 328. [DOI] [Repository]
Okamoto, A. S., Verberne, B. A., Niemeijer, A. R., Takahashi, M., Shimizu, I., Ueda, T., & Spiers, C. J. (2019). Frictional Properties of Simulated Chlorite Gouge at Hydrothermal Conditions: Implications for Subduction Megathrusts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(5), 4545-4565. [DOI] [Repository]
Hunfeld, L. B., Chen, J., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2019). Temperature and Gas/Brine Content Affect Seismogenic Potential of Simulated Fault Gouges Derived From Groningen Gas Field Caprock. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(6), 2827-2847. [DOI] [Repository]
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2019). Impact of Chemical Environment on Compaction Creep of Quartz Sand and Possible Geomechanical Applications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(6), 5584-5606. [DOI] [Repository]
Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Verberne, B. A., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2019). Inelastic Deformation of the Slochteren Sandstone: Stress-Strain Relations and Implications for Induced Seismicity in the Groningen Gas Field. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(5), 5254-5282. [DOI] [Repository]
2018
Scholarly publications
Sinn, C. J. A., Giacomel, P., Peach, C. J., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2018). Effects of Plastic Deformation on the Transport Properties of Rocksalt. 101-120. Paper presented at The Mechanical Behaviorof Salt IX, Hannover, Germany.
Kurzawski, R. M., Niemeijer, A. R., Stipp, M., Charpentier, D., Behrmann, J. H., & Spiers, C. J. (2018). Frictional Properties of Subduction Input Sediments at an Erosive Convergent Continental Margin and Related Controls on Décollement Slip Modes: The Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(10), 8385-8408. [DOI] [Repository]
Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Verberne, B. A., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2018). Deformation behavior of sandstones from the seismogenic Groningen gas field: Role of inelastic versus elastic mechanisms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(7), 5532-5558. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, J., Fokker, P. A., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2018). Applied stress reduces swelling of coal induced by adsorption of water. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 16, 45-63. [DOI] [Repository]
Zhang, M., de Jong, S. M., Spiers, C. J., Busch, A., & Wentinck, H. M. (2018). Swelling stress development in confined smectite clays through exposure to CO2. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 74, 49-61. [DOI] [Repository]
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., van Noort, R., & Spiers, C. J. (2018). Reaction-driven casing expansion: potential for wellbore leakage mitigation. Acta Geotechnica, 13(2), 341-366. [DOI] [Repository]
van den Ende, M. P. A., Marketos, G., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2018). Investigating compaction by intergranular pressure solution using the Discrete Element Method. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(1), 107-124. [DOI] [Repository]
2017
Scholarly publications
Van Stappen, J., Meftah, R., De Kock, T., Bultreys, T., Boone, M. A., Hangx, S. JT., Spiers, C. J., & Cnudde, V. (2017). Visualisation of rock alteration processes in fractured reservoir rocks. In 3rd International conference on tomography of materials and structures Article 155 https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/ICTMS2017/ICTMS2017-155.pdf
Spiers, C. J., Hangx, S. J. T., & Niemeijer, A. R. (2017). New approaches in experimental research on rock and fault behaviour in the Groningen gas field. Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 96(S5), 55-69. [DOI] [Repository]
Sawai, M., Niemeijer, A. R., Hirose, T., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Frictional properties of JFAST core samples and implications for slow earthquakes at the Tohoku subduction zone. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(17), 8822-8831. [DOI] [Repository]
Hunfeld, L. B., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Frictional Properties of Simulated Fault Gouges from the Seismogenic Groningen Gas Field Under In Situ P–T -Chemical Conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(11), 8969-8989. [DOI] [Repository]
Verberne, B. A., Chen, J., Niemeijer, A. R., de Bresser, J. H. P., Pennock, G. M., Drury, M. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Microscale cavitation as a mechanism for nucleating earthquakes at the base of the seismogenic zone. Nature Communications, 8, Article 1645. [DOI] [Repository]
van Noort, R., Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Drury, M. R., Kandianis, M. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). The force of crystallization and fracture propagation during in-situ carbonation of peridotite. Minerals, 7(10), Article 190. [DOI] [Repository]
Nicolas, A., Fortin, J., Regnet, J. B., Verberne, B. A., Plümper, O., Dimanov, A., Spiers, C. J., & Guéguen, Y. (2017). Brittle and semibrittle creep of Tavel limestone deformed at room temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(6), 4436-4459. [DOI] [Repository]
Chen, J., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Microphysically derived expressions for rate-and-state friction parameters, a, b, and Dc. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(12), 9627-9657. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, J., Fokker, P. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Coupling of swelling, internal stress evolution, and diffusion in coal matrix material during exposure to methane. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(2), 844-865. [DOI] [Repository]
Buijze, L., Niemeijer, A. R., Han, R., Shimamoto, T., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Friction properties and deformation mechanisms of halite(-mica) gouges from low to high sliding velocities. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 458, 107-119. [DOI] [Repository]
Takahashi, M., van den Ende, M. P. A., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Shear localization in a mature mylonitic rock analogue during fast slip. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(2), 513-530. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Hangx, S., Cordonnier, B., Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Renard, F., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Grain-scale deformation in granular materials: time-lapse XCT-imaging of a deforming reservoir sandstone. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-13086.pdf [Repository]
Spiers, C. J. (2017). Effects of fluids on rock deformation and fault slip: From nature to societal impact (Louis Néel Medal Lecture). 2278. Abstract from European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria. [Repository]
Buijze, L., Guo, Y., Niemeijer, A. R., Ma, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Stresses, deformation, and seismic events on scaled experimental faults with heterogeneous fault segments and comparison to numerical modeling. Abstract from European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria.
den Hartog, S. A. M., Faulkner, D. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). The microphysics of phyllosilicate friction. 7282. Abstract from European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria. [Repository]
Calignano, E., Rosenau, M., Lange, O., Spiers, C. J., Willingshofer, E., Drury, M. R., van Kan, M., Elger, K., Ulbricht, D., Funiciello, F., Trippanera, D., Sagnotti, L., Scarlato, P., Tesei, T., & winkler, A. (2017). EPOS-WP16: A coherent and collaborative network of Solid Earth Multi-scale laboratories. Poster session presented at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria. [Repository]
Nicolas, A., Fortin, J., Verberne, B. A., Regnet, J. B., Plümper, O., Dimanov, A., Spiers, C. J., & Guéguen, Y. (2017). Mechanical behavior of limestone undergoing brittle-ductile transition: experiments and model. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria.
Verberne, B. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). A quantitative microstructural investigation of depleted and undepleted reservoir sandstones. Paper presented at 51st US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, United States.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Niemeijer, A. R., Marketos, G., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Are slide-hold-slide tests a good analogue for the seismic cycle?. Abstract from European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-7318.pdf
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., van Noort, R., & Spiers, C. J. (2017). Force of crystallisation-development during CaO hydration: Theory vs. experiment and the role of fluid transport. Abstract from European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria.
2016
Scholarly publications
Verberne, B. A., Plümper, O., de Winter, D. A. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). 超塑性纳米纤维状滑动带控制孕震断层摩擦. 国际地震动态, 2016(05), 19-24.
Marketos, G., Govers, R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Rocksalt creep, uncertainties, and their implications for surface subsidence above a producing rocksalt-capped reservoir. In 50th US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium 2016 (Vol. 4, pp. 3162-3169). American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA).
Elsworth, D., Spiers, C. J., & Niemeijer, A. R. (2016). Understanding induced seismicity. Science, 354(6318), 1380-1381. [DOI] [Repository]
Chen, J., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Rate and state frictional and healing behavior of carbonate fault gouge explained using microphysical model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(12), 8642-8665. [DOI] [Repository]
Busch, A., Bertier, P., Gensterblum, Y., Rother, G., Spiers, C. J., Zhang, M., & Wentinck, H. M. (2016). On sorption and swelling of CO2 in clays. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 2(2), 111-130. [DOI] [Repository]
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Peach, C. J., Raoof, A., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Reactive transport of CO2-rich fluids in simulated wellbore interfaces: Flow-through experiments on the 1–6 m length scale. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 54(Part 1), 96-116. [DOI] [Repository]
Bakker, E., Hangx, S. J. T., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Frictional behaviour and transport properties of simulated fault gouges derived from a natural CO2 reservoir. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 54, 70-83. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, W., Muhammad, N., Chen, J., Spiers, C. J., Peach, C. J., Deyi, J., & Li, Y. (2016). Investigation on the permeability characteristics of bedded salt rocks and the tightness of natural gas caverns in such formations. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 35(Part A), 468-482. [DOI] [Repository]
Kurzawski, R. M., Stipp, M., Niemeijer, A. R., Spiers, C. J., & Behrmann, J. H. (2016). Earthquake nucleation in weak subducted carbonates. Nature Geoscience, 9, 717-722. Article ngeo2774. [DOI] [Repository]
Marketos, G., Spiers, C. J., & Govers, R. (2016). Impact of rock salt creep law choice on subsidence calculations for hydrocarbon reservoirs overlain by evaporite caprocks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(6), 4249-4267. [DOI] [Repository]
Pluymakers, A. M. H., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Frictional properties of simulated anhydrite-dolomite fault gouge and implications for seismogenic potential. Journal of Structural Geology, 84, 31-46. [DOI] [Repository]
Sawai, M., Niemeijer, A. R., Plümper, O., Hirose, T., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Nucleation of frictional instability caused by fluid pressurization in subducted blueschist. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 2543-2551. [DOI] [Repository]
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Effect of CO2-induced reactions on the mechanical behaviour of fractured wellbore cement. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 7, 26-46. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Urpi, L., Rinaldi, A. P., Rutqvist, J., Cappa, F., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Synthetic modeling of a fluid injection-induced fault rupture with slip-rate dependent friction coefficient. Abstract from EGU Generall Assemly, Vienna, Austria.
den Hartog, S. A. M., Faulkner, D., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). A Microphysical Model for Phyllosilicate Friction. Abstract from American Geophysical Union , San Francisco, United States.
Muhammad, N., Spiers, C. J., Peach, C. J., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Liu, W. (2016). Permeability Development at Layer Interfaces in Bedded Rocksalt. Abstract from American Geophysical Union , San Francisco, United States.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Understanding and Mitigating Reservoir Compaction: An Experimental Study on Sand Aggregates. Abstract from American Geophysical Union , San Francisco, United States.
Pijnenburg, R. P. J., Verberne, B. A., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Deformation of Reservoir Sandstones by Elastic versus Inelastic Deformation Mechanisms. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Fransisco, California, United States.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Understanding and mitigating reservoir compaction: an experimental study on sand aggregates. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Fransisco, California, United States.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Understanding and mitigating reservoir compaction: an experimental study on sand aggregates. Poster session presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Fransisco, California, United States.
Takahashi, M., van den Ende, M. P. A., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Critical velocity for shear localization in a mature mylonitic rock analogue. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Fransisco, California, United States.
Hunfeld, L. B., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Seismogenic potential of Anhydrite-Carbonate fault gouge sensitive to pore fluid composition. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Fransisco, California, United States.
Buijze, A. J. L., Guo, Y. S., Niemeijer, A. R., Yi, Y. T., Ma, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Unstable slip events on large-scale experimental faults with variable along-fault lithologies. Abstract from Gordon Research Conference - Rock Deformation, Andover, United States.
Verberne, B. A., Niemeijer, A. R., Spiers, C. J., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Pennock, G. M. (2016). Strength, Stability, and Microstructure of Simulated Calcite Faults Sheared Under Laboratory Conditions Spanning the Brittle-Ductile Transition. Abstract from International Symposium of Crustal Dynamics, Takayama, Japan.
Amirzada, Z., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Principal controls on the dynamics of a spring-slider. Abstract from NAC 13, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Effect of CO2-induced chemical reactions on the mechanical behaviour of fractured wellbore cement. Abstract from European Geosciences Union (EGU) Conference 2016, Vienna, Austria.
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Effect of CO2-induced chemical reactions on the mechanical behaviour of fractured wellbore cement. Poster session presented at European Geosciences Union (EGU) Conference 2016, Vienna, Austria.
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Raoof, A., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Reactive transport of CO2-rich fluids in simulated wellbore interfaces: Experiments and models exploring behaviour on length scales of 1 to 6 m. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Fransisco, California, United States.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Marketos, G., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). An Investigation of the Contribution of Cohesion to Interseismic Restrengthening of Fault Gouges. Poster session presented at Gordon Research Seminar - Rock Deformation, Andover, United States.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Marketos, G., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). An Investigation of the Contribution of Cohesion to Interseismic Restrengthening of Fault Gouges. Poster session presented at Gordon Research Seminar - Rock Deformation, Andover, United States.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Marketos, G., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). An Investigation of the Contribution of Cohesion to Interseismic Restrengthening of Fault Gouges. Abstract from Gordon Research Conference - Rock Deformation, Andover, United States.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Marketos, G., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). An Investigation of the Contribution of Cohesion to Interseismic Restrengthening of Fault Gouges. Abstract from Gordon Research Seminar - Rock Deformation, Andover, United States.
Muhammad, N., de Bresser, J. H. P., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2016). Composite grain size sensitive and grain size insensitive creep of bischofite, carnallite and mixed bischofite-carnallite-halite salt rock. Poster session presented at European Geosciences Union (EGU) Conference 2016, Vienna, Austria. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-9535.pdf
Houben, M. E., Douma, L., Barnhoorn, A., Hardebol, N. J., Remij, E., Valliappan, V., Bertotti, G., Cloetingh, S. A. P. L., Drury, M. R., Peach, C. J., Remmers, J., Smeulders, D., Spiers, C. J., & van Wees, J. D. A. M. (2016). Basin to pore Fracture network and Fluid-rock interaction in tight Sands and Shale (2f2s). Abstract from NAC 13, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., Ramirez, A., Spiers, C. J., & Worrell, E. (2016). Integrated assessment of mitigation options for production-induced reservoir compaction in hydrocarbon fields. Abstract from NAC 13, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., Ramirez, A., Spiers, C. J., & Worrell, E. (2016). Integrated assessment of mitigation options for production-induced reservoir compaction in hydrocarbon fields. Poster session presented at NAC 13, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
2015
Scholarly publications
EPOS WG6 (2015). Multiscale Laboratory Infrastructure and Services to users: Plans within EPOS. In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 17). Article EGU2015-12373 http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-12373.pdf [Repository]
Marketos, G., Broerse, T., Spiers, C. J., & Govers, R. M. A. (2015). Long-term subsidence study of the Ameland gas field: time-dependence induced by rocksalt flow. UU Dept. of Earth Sciences. [Repository]
Verberne, B. A., Niemeijer, A. R., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Strength, stability, and microstructure of simulated calcite faults sheared under laboratory conditions spanning the brittle-plastic transition. In P. Delage, S. Ghabezloo, J.-M. Pereira, & M. Vandamme (Eds.), 5th International Workshop of Young Doctors in Geomechanics, W(H)YDOC 15 Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, France. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Berend_Verberne/publication/304912565_Strength_stability_and_microstructure_of_simulated_calcite_faults_sheared_under_laboratory_conditions_spanning_the_brittle-plastic_transition/links/577d09cd08ae36fde03f1685/Strength-stability-and-microstructure-of-simulated-calcite-faults-sheared-under-laboratory-conditions-spanning-the-brittle-plastic-transition.pdf
Verberne, B. A., Niemeijer, A. R., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Mechanical behavior and microstructure of simulated calcite fault gouge sheared at 20-600°C: Implications for natural faults in limestones. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(12), 8169-8196. [DOI] [Repository]
Chen, J., Verberne, B. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Effects of healing on the seismogenic potential of carbonate fault rocks: Experiments on samples from the Longmenshan Fault, Sichuan, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(8), 5479-5506. [DOI] [Repository]
Marketos, G., Govers, R., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Ground motions induced by a producing hydrocarbon reservoir that is overlain by a viscoelastic rocksalt layer: A numerical model. Geophysical Journal International, 203(1), 228-242. [DOI] [Repository]
Chen, J., Verberne, B. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Interseismic re-strengthening and stabilization of carbonate faults by "non-Dieterich" healing under hydrothermal conditions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 423, 1-12. [DOI] [Repository]
Muhammad, N., Spiers, C. J., Peach, C. J., de Bresser, J. H. P., & W., L. (2015). Permeability of layered rock salt at different stresses and geometries. In L. Roberts, K. Mellegard, & F. Hansen (Eds.), Mechanical Behaviour of Salt VIII (pp. 23-31). (Mechanical Behaviour of Salt; Vol. VIII). CRC Press. [DOI]
Liu, J., Peach, C. J., Zhou, H., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Thermodynamic model for swelling of unconfined coal due to adsorption of mixed gases. Fuel, 157, 151-161. [DOI] [Repository]
Pluymakers, A. M. H., & Spiers, C. (2015). Compaction creep of simulated anhydrite fault gouge by pressure solution: theory v. experiments and implications for fault sealing. In D. R. Faulkner, E. Mariani, & J. Mecklenburgh (Eds.), Rock Deformation from Field, Experiments and Theory: A Volume in Honour of Ernie Rutter (Vol. 409, pp. 107-124). (Geological Society Special Publication; Vol. 409). Geological Society. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Muhammad, N., de Bresser, J. H. P., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2015). Creep behaviour of bischofite, carnallite and mixed bischofite-carnallite-halite salt rock. Geotectonic Research, 97(1), 15-17. [DOI]
Marketos, G., Govers, R. M. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Surface Subsidence Induced by Hydrocarbons Extraction, and the Potential for Time-Dependent Ground Deformations. Paper presented at U.S Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, United States.
Chen, J., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). A microphysical model explains rate-and-state friction. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Marketos, G., Spiers, C. J., & Niemeijer, A. R. (2015). A Microphysical Interpretation of Rate-and-State Friction Behaviour: Insights from Discrete Element Modelling. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/webprogram/Paper74109.html
EPOS WP16 participants (2015). Multiscale Laboratory Infrastructure and Services to users: Plans within EPOS. Poster session presented at EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria. ftp://ftp.geog.uu.nl/pub/posters/2015/Multiscale_Laboratory_Infrastructure_and_Services_to_Users_Plans_within_EPOS-Spiers-April2015.pdf
Korkolis, E., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Acoustic monitoring of laboratory faults: locating the origin of unstable slip events.
Marketos, G., Govers, R. M. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Subsidence above a gas reservoir as affected by flow of rocksalt (the cap rock). Abstract from 11th EURO-conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics 2015, Ambleside, United Kingdom.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Marketos, G., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). A microphysical interpretation for rate-and-state friction behaviour: Insights from discrete element modelling. Poster session presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, California, United States.
Takahashi, M., van den Ende, M. P. A., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Thin shear localization in matured mylonitic rock. Abstract from Japan Geoscience Union annual meeting 2015, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.
Sawai, M., Niemeijer, A. R., Hirose, T., Plümper, O., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Frictional properties of materials along the plate boundary of Tohoku subduction zone: implications for slow slip events. Abstract from Japan Geoscience Union annual meeting 2015, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.
Sawai, M., Niemeijer, A. R., Plümper, O., Hirose, T., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Frictional properties of blueschist under in-situ conditions and implications for fault motion. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, California, United States.
Spiers, C. J. (2015). Lecture at U.A.V. Symposium 2015 on "Mineralogy: From origin of life to modern society". Abstract from UAV Symposium 2015 on “Mineralogy”, Utrecht, United Kingdom.
Spiers, C. J. (2015). Effects of fluids on fault friction and healing behaviour: Integrating experimental, microphysical and observational approaches.
Spiers, C. J. (2015). Microstructures and rheology in laboratory experiments and what it all means for interpreting and modelling natural deformation. Geotectonic Research, 97(1), 161-161. [Repository]
Marketos, G., Govers, R. M. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Surface subsidence induced by hydrocarbon extraction, and the potential for time-dependent ground deformation. Abstract from 49th ARMA Rock Mechanics, San Francisco, United States.
Marketos, G., Govers, R. M. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Hydrocarbon reservoirs with rocksalt caprocks: time dependence of ground-surface settlements and the effect of the rocksalt creep model. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). The Effect of Chemical Environment on the Time-Dependent Compaction Behaviour of Quartz Sands. Poster session presented at 11th EURO-conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics, Ambleside, United Kingdom.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). A microphysical interpretation of the rate-and-state friction direct effect: Implications for the seismic cycle. Poster session presented at EGU 2015, United Kingdom. [Portal]
van den Ende, M. P. A., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). A microphysical interpretation of the rate-and-state friction direct effect: Implications for the seismic cycle. Abstract from EGU 2015, United Kingdom.
van den Ende, M. P. A., Marketos, G., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). A Microphysical Interpretation of Rate-and-State Friction Behaviour: Insights from Discrete Element Modelling.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). The Effect of Chemical Environment on the Time-Dependent Compaction Behaviour of Quartz Sands. Poster session presented at International Conference on Sustainability, UTRECHT, Netherlands.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). The Effect of Chemical Environment on the Time-Dependent Compaction Behaviour of Quartz Sands. Poster session presented at 8th Dutch CCS Symposium, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Schimmel, M. T. W., Hangx, S. J. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). The Effect of Chemical Environment on the Time-Dependent Compaction Behaviour of Quartz Sands. Abstract from 11th EURO-conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics, Ambleside, United Kingdom.
Verberne, B. A., Niemeijer, A. R., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (2015). Strength, stability, and microstructure of simulated calcite faults sheared under laboratory conditions spanning the brittle-ductile transition. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/webprogram/Paper78168.html
Houben, M., Barnhoorn, A., Drury, M., Peach, C., & Spiers, C. (2015). Microstructure and permeability of the Whitby Mudstone (UK) as an analogue for the Posidonia shale (NL). Geophysical Research Abstracts, 17, Article EGU2015-4654. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-4654.pdf [Repository]
Verberne, B., Niemeijer, A., de Bresser, H., & Spiers, C. (2015). Frictional-viscous transition in simulated calcite fault gouge sheared at 550°C. Abstract from EGU 2015, United Kingdom.
Verberne, B., Plümper, O., de Winter, M., & Spiers, C. (2015). Superplastic nanofibrous slip zones control seismogenic fault friction. Abstract from AAPG Annual convention, Denver, United States.
Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. (2015). What’s shaking?: Understanding creep and induced seismicity in depleting sandstone reservoirs. Abstract from EGU 2015, United Kingdom.
Bakker, E., Niemeijer, A., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. (2015). Effect of carbonate content on the mechanical behaviour of clay fault-gouges. Abstract from EGU 2015, United Kingdom.
Houben, M., Barnhoorn, A., Drury, M., Peach, C., & Spiers, C. (2015). Porosity and permeability of the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale from Whitby (UK). Abstract from LOWPERM2015: Low permeability media and nanoporous materials from characterisation to modelling: can we do it better?, Rueil-Malmaison, France, France.
2014
Scholarly publications
de Raadt, W. S., Burlini, L., Kunze, K., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). Effect of pre-existing crystallographic preferred orientation on the rheology of Carrara marble. Journal of Structural Geology, 68(PART A), 44-57. [DOI]
Busch, A., Kampman, N., Hangx, S., Snippe, J., Bickle, M., Bertier, P., Chapman, H., Spiers, C. J., Pijnenburg, R., Samuelson, J., Evans, J. P., Maskell, A., Nicholl, J., Pipich, V., Di, Z., Rother, G., & Schaller, M. (2014). The Green River natural analogue as a field laboratory to study the long-term fate of CO2 in the subsurface: 12th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT-12. Energy Procedia, 63, 2821-2830. [DOI]
Liu, W., Muhammad, N., Li, Y., Spiers, C. J., Yang, C., & Ma, H. (2014). Experimental study of permeability of salt rock and its application to deep underground gas storage. Yanshilixue Yu Gongcheng Xuebao, 33(10), 1953-1961. [DOI]
Brzesowsky, R. H., Hangx, S. J. T., Brantut, N., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). Compaction creep of sands due to time-dependent grain failure: Effects of chemical environment, applied stress, and grain size. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(10), 7521-7541. [DOI]
Brzesowsky, R. H., Spiers, C. J., Peach, C. J., & Hangx, S. (2014). Time-independent compaction behavior of quartz sands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(2), 936-956. [DOI] [Repository]
Hangx, S. J. T., Pluymakers, A. M. H., Ten Hove, A., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). The effects of lateral variations in rock composition and texture on anhydrite caprock integrity of CO2 storage systems. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 69, 80-92. [DOI]
Houben, M. E., Barnhoorn, A., Drury, M. R., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). Microstructural investigation of the Whitby mudstone (UK) as an analog for Posidonia Shale (NL). In 76th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2014: Experience the Energy (Vol. 1, pp. 3785-3759). European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE. [DOI]
den Hartog, S. A. M., Saffer, D. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). The roles of quartz and water in controlling unstable slip in phyllosilicate-rich megathrust fault gouges. Earth, Planets and Space, 66, Article 78. [DOI] [Repository]
Verberne, B. A., Plümper, O., de Winter, D. A. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). Superplastic nanofibrous slip zones control seismogenic fault friction. Science, 346(6215), 1342-1344. Article 1259003. [DOI]
Pluymakers, A. M. H., Samuelson, J. E., Niemeijer, A., & Spiers, C. (2014). Effects of temperature and CO2 on the frictional behavior of simulated anhydrite fault rock. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(12), 8728-8747. [DOI]
Raoof, A., Nick, H. M., Hassanizadeh, S. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). Pore-network modeling of multi-component reactive transport under (variably-) saturated conditions. In R. Al-Khoury, & J. Bundschuh (Eds.), Computational models for CO2 sequestration and compressed air energy storage (pp. 137-170). (Sustainable Energy Developments). CRC Press. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781138015203
Pluymakers, A. M. H., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). Diagenetic compaction experiments on simulated anhydrite fault gouge under static conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(5), 4123-4148. [DOI]
den Hartog, S. A. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). A microphysical model for fault gouge friction applied to subduction megathrusts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(2), 1510-1529. [DOI] [Repository]
Verberne, B. A., Spiers, C. J., Niemeijer, A. R., de Bresser, J. H. P., de Winter, D. A. M., & Plümper, O. (2014). Frictional properties and microstructure of calcite-rich fault gouges sheared at sub-seismic sliding velocities. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 171, 2617-2640. [DOI]
de Jong, S. M., Spiers, C. J., & Busch, A. (2014). Development of swelling strain in smectite clays through exposure to carbon dioxide. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 24, 149-161. [DOI]
Other output
Verberne, B., Plümper, O., de Winter, M., & Spiers, C. (2014). Fault stability in the shallow crust controlled by room temperature ductile nanochains. Abstract from NAC 12, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, Netherlands.
Verberne, B., Niemeijer, A., & Spiers, C. (2014). Strength and stability of calcite fault rocks sheared throughout the frictional-viscous transition. Abstract from NAC 12, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, Netherlands.
Marketos, G., Govers, R., & Spiers, C. (2014). Modeling the (Sub)surface Deformation Field Evolution Due to Production from a Hydrocarbon Reservoir Overlain by Rocksalt. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/16161
Buijze, L., Niemeijer, A., Han, R., Shimamoto, T., & Spiers, C. (2014). Four frictional regimes as a function of slip rate in halite and halite-muscovite gouge deformed from low to high velocities. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 16, Article EGU2014-10055. [Repository]
Kurzawski, R., Stipp, M., Niemeijer, A., Spiers, C., & Behrmann, J. H. (2014). Magnetic fabrics and frictional behaviour of subduction zone input material from the erosive continental margin offshore Costa Rica (Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project, IODP expeditions 334 and 344).. Abstract from IODP/ICDP Kolloquium, Nordbayern, Germany.
Kurzawski, R., Stipp, M., Niemeijer, A., Spiers, C., & Behrmann, J. H. (2014). Frictional properties of subduction zone input material from the erosive continental margin offshore Costa Rica (IODP expeditions 334 and 344). Abstract from Tekonik-Strukturgeologie-Kristallingeologie (TSK), Potsdam, Germany.
Verberne, B., Niemeijer, A., & Spiers, C. (2014). Strength and stability of calcite fault rocks sheared throughout the frictional-viscous. Abstract from NAC 12, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, Netherlands.
Niemeijer, A., den Hartog, S., & Spiers, C. (2014). Slip velocity has major impact on the frictional strength and microstructure of quartz-muscovite gouges under hydrothermal conditions. Abstract from NAC 12, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, Netherlands.
Verberne, B., Niemeijer, A., & Spiers, C. (2014). Strength and stability of calcite gouge sheared at 20-600 °C. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria.
Sawai, M., Niemeijer, A., Plümper, O., Hirose, T., & Spiers, C. (2014). Frictional properties of glaucophane schist under hydrocentral depth conditions. Abstract from Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Sapporo, Japan. http://www.asiaoceania.org/society/absList14/absView.asp?absID=1857
Kurzawski, R., Stipp, M., Niemeijer, A., Spiers, C., & Behrmann, J. H. (2014). Temperature-controlled change in frictional properties - a key for shallow seismogenesis along the Middle America Trench offshore Costa Rice (IODP expeditions 334 and 344). Abstract from GeoFrankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
Sawai, M., Niemeijer, A., Hirose, T., & Spiers, C. (2014). Depth Limits of slow slip events at the Japan Trench: Insights from friction experiments under in-situ conditions. Abstract from AGU 2014, San francisco, United Kingdom. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/15327
Hangx, S., Pijnenburg, R., Niemeijer, A., Bakker, E., Samuelson, J., & Spiers, C. (2014). No Seal, No Deal: the Importance of understanding caprock integrity during long-term CO2 storage. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/25395
Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. (2014). Compaction of reservoir sandstones: The cause of induced seismicity in the Groningen and other gas fields?. Abstract from NAC12: the 12th Netherlands Earth Sciences Conference, Veldhoven.
Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. (2014). Understanding creep in sandstone reservoirs – theoretical deformation mechanism maps for pressure solution in granular materials. EGU2014-15065-1. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria. [Repository]
de Bresser, H., Muhammad, N., Spiers, C., & Peach, C. (2014). Creep behaviour of bischofite, carnallite and mixed bischofite-carnallite salt rock. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/22733
Marketos, G., Govers, R., & Spiers, C. (2014). Modeling the (Sub)surface Deformation Field Evolution Due to Production from a Hydrocarbon Reservoir Overlain by Rocksalt. Poster session presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States.
Wolterbeek, T., Peach, C., & Spiers, C. (2014). Reaction and transport in debonded wellbore casing-cement interfaces under CO2 storage conditions: From batch reaction tests to flow-through experiments on the 2m length-scale. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014EGUGA..1613787W
Wolterbeek, T., Peach, C., & Spiers, C. (2014). Effects of CO2-induced reaction on the transport properties of debonded well cement-casing interfaces: reactive flow-through experiments on the metre scale. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/22491
Muhammad, N., Spiers, C., de Bresser, H., & Peach, C. (2014). The dependence on pressure of the plastic flow of rocksalt in the temperature range 25-250°C: implications for the rate controlling mechanism. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/EGU2014-11934-1.pdf
Muhammad, N., Spiers, C., de Bresser, H., & Peach, C. (2014). A new flow law for bischofite. Poster session presented at EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/EGU2014-12489.pdf [Repository]
Pijnenburg, R., Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. (2014). Wafers are the new plugs: a novel technique to obtain strength parameters in shale under drained conditions. Poster session presented at The challenge of studying low-permeability materials. , Cergy, France.
Houben, M. E., Barnhoorn, A., Drury, M. R., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2014). PIPS-SEM comparison of the microstructures of the Posidonia Shale Formation and the Whitby Mudstone Formation. Poster session presented at NVVM material science meeting 2014, United Kingdom.
Houben, M., Barnhoorn, A., Drury, M., Peach, C., & Spiers, C. (2014). PIPS-SEM comparison of the microstructures of the Posidonia Shale Formation and the Whitby Mudstone Formation. Abstract from NVVM material science meeting 2014, United Kingdom. http://www.nvvm-materials2014.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MEH_abstract_nvvmmater2013.pdf
2013
Scholarly publications
Chen, J., Yang, X., Yao, L., Ma, S., Shimamoto, T., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Frictional and transport properties of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake fault zone: implications for coseismic slip-weakening mechanisms. Tectonophysics, 603, 237-256. [DOI]
Hirauchi, K.-I., den Hartog, S. A. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Weakening of the slab-mantle wedge interface induced by metasomatic growth of talc. Geology, 41(1), 75-78. [DOI]
Houben, M. E., ten Hove, A., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Crack healing in rocksalt via diffusion in adsorbed aqueous films: Microphysical modelling versus experiments. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. Parts A/B/C, 64, 95-104. [DOI]
Wolterbeek, T. K. T., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Reaction and transport in wellbore interfaces under CO2 storage conditions: Experiments simulating debonded cement-casing interfaces. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 19, 519-529. [DOI]
Hol, S., Gensterblum, Y., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Direct determination of total CO2 uptake by coal: A new technique compared with the manometric method. Fuel, 105, 192-205. [DOI]
Liteanu, E., Spiers, C. J., & de Bresser, J. H. P. (2013). The influence of water and supercritical CO2 on the failure behavior of chalk. Tectonophysics, 599, 157-169. [DOI]
Ikari, M., Niemeijer, A. R., Spiers, C. J., Kopf, A. J., & Saffer, D. M. (2013). Experimental evidence linking slip instability with seafloor lithology and topography at the Costa Rica convergent margin. Geology, 41(8), 891-894. [DOI]
Raoof, A., Nick, H. M., Hassanizadeh, S. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). PoreFlow: A complex pore-network model for simulation of reactive transport in variably saturated porous media. Computers and Geosciences, 61, 160-174. [DOI]
Chen, J., Yang, X., Ma, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Mass removal and clay mineral dehydration/rehydration in carbonate-rich surface exposures of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake fault: Geochemical evidence and implications for fault zone evolution and coseismic slip. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(2), 474-496. [DOI]
Chen, J., Yang, X., Duan, Q., Shimamoto, T., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Importance of thermochemical pressurization in the dynamic weakening of the Longmenshan Fault during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: Inferences from experiments and modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(8), 4145-4169. [DOI]
den Hartog, S. A. M., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Friction on subduction megathrust faults: Beyond the illite-muscovite transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 373, 8-19. [DOI]
Verberne, B. A., de Bresser, J. H. P., Niemeijer, A. R., Spiers, C. J., de Winter, D. A. M., & Plümper, O. (2013). Nanocrystalline slip zones in calcite fault gouge show intense crystallographic preferred orientation: Crystal plasticity at sub-seismic slip rates at 18–150 °C. Geology, 41(8), 863-866. [DOI]
van Noort, R., Spiers, C. J., Drury, M. R., & Kandianis, M. T. (2013). Peridotite dissolution and carbonation rates at fracture surfaces under conditions relevant for in situ mineralization of CO2. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 106, 1-24. [DOI]
Hol, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Microfracturing of coal related to adsorption-induced swelling and matrix-scale heterogeneity. Paper #13-653. In L. J. Pyrak-Nolte (Ed.), Proceedings of the 47th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, San Franciso 2013 (pp. 1490-1494). American Rock Mechanics Association / Curran Associates, Inc..
den Hartog, S. A. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2013). Influence of subduction zone conditions and gouge composition on frictional slip stability of megathrust faults. Tectonophysics, 600, 75-90. [DOI]
Popularising publications
Spiers, C. J., Govers, R. M. A., & Turkenburg, W. C. (2013). Tegengas: "Groningse ondergrond, volledig herstel zit er niet in" (article by Bard van de Weijer). Volkskrant.
Spiers, C. J., & de Bresser, J. H. P. (2013). Een injectie tegen bodemdaling (interview). De Telegraaf.
Other output
Verberne, B., Spiers, C., Plümper, O., Niemeijer, A., & de Winter, M. (2013). Nanocrystalline mirror-slip surfaces in calcite gouge sheared at sub-seismic slip rates. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, California, United States.
2012
Scholarly publications
Liteanu, E., Niemeijer, A., Spiers, C. J., Peach, C. J., & de Bresser, J. H. P. (2012). The effect of CO2 on creep of wet calcite aggregates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117(B3), Article B03211. [DOI]
Cilona, A., Baud, P., Tondi, E., Agosta, F., Vinciguerra, S., Rustichelli, A., & Spiers, C. J. (2012). Deformation bands in porous carbonate grainstones: Field and laboratory observations. Journal of Structural Geology, 45, 137-157. [DOI]
Raoof, A., Nick, H. M., Wolterbeek, T. K. T., & Spiers, C. J. (2012). Pore-scale modeling of reactive transport in wellbore cement under CO2 storage conditions. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 11S, 67-77. [DOI]
Visser, H. J. M., Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2012). Effects of interfacial energy on compaction creep by intergranular pressure solution: theory vs. experiments on a rock analogue (NaNO3). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117, B11211. Article B11211. [DOI]
Zhang, C., van Roermund, H. L. M., Zhang, L., & Spiers, C. (2012). A polyphase metamorphic evolution for the Xitieshan paragneiss of the north Qaidam UHP metamorphic belt, western China: In-situ EMP monazite- and U-Pb zircon SHRIMP dating. Lithos, 136-139, 27-45. [DOI]
Hol, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2012). Competition between adsorption-induced swelling and elastic compression of coal at CO2 pressures up to 100 MPa. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 60, 1862-1882. [DOI]
Hol, S., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2012). Microfracturing of coal due to interaction with CO2 under unconfined conditions. Fuel, 97, 569-584. [DOI]
den Hartog, S. A. M., Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2012). New constraints on megathrust slip stability under subduction zone P-T conditions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 353-354, 240-252. [DOI]
Koelemeijer, P. J., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2012). Surface diffusivity of cleaved NaCl crystals as a function of humidity: Impedance spectroscopy measurements and implications for crack healing in rock salt. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117(B1), Article B01205. [DOI]
Samuelson, J., & Spiers, C. J. (2012). Fault friction and slip stability not affected by CO2 storage: Evidence from short-term laboratory experiments on North Sea reservoir sandstones and caprocks. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 11S, S78-S90. [DOI]
Muhammad, N., Spiers, C. J., Peach, C. J., & de Bresser, J. H. P. (2012). Effect of confining pressure on plastic flow of salt at 125°C. In P. Bérest, M. Ghoreychi, F. Hadj-Hassen, & M. Tijani (Eds.), Mechanical Behavior of Salt VII (pp. 57-64). (Mechanical Behaviour of Salt; Vol. VII). CRC Press. [DOI]
Hol, S., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2012). Effect of 3-D stress state on adsorption of CO2 by coal. International Journal of Coal Geology, 93, 1-15. [DOI]
den Hartog, S. A. M., Peach, C. J., de Winter, D. A. M., Spiers, C. J., & Shimamoto, T. (2012). Frictional properties of megathrust fault gouges at low sliding velocities: new data on effects of normal stress and temperature. Journal of Structural Geology, 38, 156-171. [DOI]
Other output
Verberne, B., Niemeijer, A., Spiers, C., He, C., & de Winter, M. (2012). Microphysical mechanisms controlling slip stability in calcite-rich fault gouges. Abstract from NAC 11, Veldhoven.
Verberne, B., Niemeijer, A., Spiers, C., He, C., & Drury, M. (2012). Microphysical mechanisms controlling slip stability in calcite-rich fault gouges. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria.
Muhammad, N., Spiers, C., Peach, C., & de Bresser, H. (2012). Poster: Effect of confining pressure on plastic flow of salt at 125°C. http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/b12041-9 [Repository]
2011
Scholarly publications
Hol, S., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2011). Applied stress reduces the CO2 sorption capacity of coal. International Journal of Coal Geology, 85(1), 128-142.
Zhang, X., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2011). Effects of pore fluid flow and chemistry on compaction creep of calcite by pressure solution at 150º C. Geofluids, 11(1), 108-122. [DOI]
van Bergen, F., Hol, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2011). Stress-strain response of pre-compacted granular coal samples exposed to CO2, CH4, He and Ar. International Journal of Coal Geology, 86(2-3), 241-253.
van Noort, R., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2011). Structure and properties of loaded silica contacts during pressure solution: impedance spectroscopy measurements under hydrothermal conditions. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 38(7), 501-516.
Brzesowsky, R. H., Spiers, C. J., Peach, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2011). Failure behavior of single sand grains: Theory versus experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 116, B06205. [DOI]
Liteanu, E., & Spiers, C. J. (2011). Fracture healing and transport properties of wellbore cement in the presence of supercritical CO2. Chemical Geology, 281(3-4), 195-210.
Holdsworth, R. E., van Diggelen, E. W. E., Spiers, C. J., de Bresser, J. H. P., Walker, R. J., & Bown, L. (2011). Fault rocks from the SAFOD core samples: implications for weakening at shallow depths along the San Andreas Fault, California. Journal of Structural Geology, 33(2), 132-144.
He, C., Verberne, B. A., & Spiers, C. J. (2011). Frictional properties of sedimentary rocks and natural fault gouges from Longmenshan fault zone and their implications. Yanshilixue Yu Gongcheng Xuebao, 30(1), 113-131. http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-79952787695&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&st1=spiers&st2=c&nlo=1&nlr=20&nls=count-f&sid=F7EE25295F812FA5B308DBCDD0C14358.I0QkgbIjGqqLQ4Nw7dqZ4A%3a253&sot=anl&sdt=aut&sl=42&s=AU-ID%28%22Spiers%2c+Christopher+J.%22+7003318682%29&relpos=27&relpos=7&searchTerm=AU-ID%28%5C%26quot%3BSpiers%2C+Christopher+J.%5C%26quot%3B+7003318682%29
2010
Scholarly publications
Wieczorek, K., Förster, B., Rothfuchs, T., Zhang, C.-L., Olivella, S., Heemann, U., Lerch, C., Pudewills, A., Kamlot, P., Grupa, J., Herchen, K., & Spiers, C. J. (2010). The excavation damaged zone in rock salt: Outcome of the EC project THERESA. In 44th US Rock Mechanics Symposium and the 5th US/Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium; Salt Lake City, Utah (pp. 1-14). American Rock Mechanics Association.
Hangx, S., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2010). The effect of deformation on permeability development in anhydrite and implications for caprock integrity during geological storage of CO2. Geofluids, 10(3), 369-387. [DOI]
van Diggelen, E. W. E., de Bresser, J. H. P., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2010). High shear strain behaviour of synthetic muscovite fault gouges under hydrothermal conditions. Journal of Structural Geology, 32(11), 1685-1700. [DOI]
Spiers, C. J. (2010). Stroperig steenzout: de geheimen van een bijzonder gesteente. Grondboor & Hamer, 64(4/5), 114-119.
Hangx, S., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2010). The mechanical behavior of anhydrite and the effect of deformation on permeability development - Implications for caprock integrity during geological storage of CO2. In Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies 10 (pp. 5358-5363). Elsevier. [DOI]
Hol, S., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2010). A new experimental method to determine the CO2 sorption capacity of coal. In Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies 10 (pp. 3125-3130). Elsevier. [DOI]
Hangx, S., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2010). Creep of simulated reservoir sands and coupled chemical-mechanical effects of CO2 injection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 115, B09205. [DOI]
Verberne, B. A., He, C., & Spiers, C. J. (2010). Frictional properties of sedimentary rocks and natural fault gouge from the Longmen Shan Fault Zone, Sichuan, China. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 100(5B), 2767-2790. [DOI]
Hangx, S., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2010). Mechanical behavior of anhydrite caprock and implications for CO2 sealing capacity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 115(B7), Article B07402. [DOI]
Zhang, X., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2010). Compaction creep of wet granular calcite by pressure solution at 28º C to 150º C. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 115(9), B09217, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005853. [DOI]
Professional publications
Spiers, C. J. (2010). De-risking geological storage of CO2: a task for solid Earth scientists. Public Service Review: Science and Technology, 7, 174-175.
Popularising publications
Spiers, C. J., & Hangx, S. J. T. (2010). Vraag het de Universiteit Utrecht: Het lege gasveld. De Telegraaf.
Other output
Verberne, B., He, C., & Spiers, C. (2010). Frictional properties of sedimentary rocks and natural fault gouge from the Longmenshan Fault Zone, Sichuan, China. Abstract from EGU 2010, Vienna.
2009
Scholarly publications
Hangx, S., Spiers, C., & Peach, C. (2009). The mechanical behavior of anhydrite and the effect of CO2 injection. Energy Procedia, 1(1), 3485-3492. [DOI]
Fukuda, J., Peach, C. J., Spiers, C. J., & Nakashima, S. (2009). Electrical impedance measurement of hydrous microcrystalline quartz. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 104(3), 176-181. http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmps/104/3/104_176/_article
Liteanu, E., & Spiers, C. J. (2009). Influence of pore fluid salt content on compaction creep of calcite aggregates in the presence of supercritical CO2. Chemical Geology, 265(1-2 S.I.), 134-147. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V5Y-4V70RBY-2&_user=3021443&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1105702599&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000021878&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=3021443&md5=411f2bde13e09a7c348589a6dc45d18c
Jourdan, A. L., Venneman, T. W., Mullis, J., Ramseyer, K., & Spiers, C. J. (2009). Evidence of growth and sector zoning in hydrothermal quartz from Alpine veins. European Journal of Mineralogy, 21(1), 219-231. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/ejm/2009/00000021/00000001/art00021
van Bergen, F., Spiers, C. J., Floor, G., & Bots, P. (2009). Strain development in unconfined coals exposed to CO2, CH4 and Ar: Effect of moisture. International Journal of Coal Geology, 77(1-2), 43-53. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8C-4TSTY6M-2&_user=3021443&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1019901674&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000021878&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=3021443&md5=5328ba0e111a7604b6557946dab3ec32
van Noort, R., & Spiers, C. J. (2009). Kinetic effects of microscale plasticity at grain boundaries during pressure solution. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 114, B03206-doi: 10.1029/2008JB005634. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JB005634.shtml
Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2009). Coastal spreading of olivine to control atmospheric CO2 concentrations: A critical analysis of viability. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 3(6), 757-767, doi: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2009.07.001. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B83WP-4WXC21N-1&_user=3021449&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1157531236&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000021878&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=3021449&md5=3d4194fa4b8646ea7f9359f476c64574
Hangx, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2009). Reaction of plagioclase feldspar with CO2 under hydrothermal conditions. Chemical Geology, 265(1-2 S.I.), 88-98. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V5Y-4V59TY7-1&_user=3021443&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1105698706&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000021878&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=3021443&md5=629b34d88ea710f44e583aaea3f126b4
2008
Scholarly publications
Hirono, T., Nakashima, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2008). Measurements of ionic diffusivity in various rock samples: Low diffusivity through nanoscale pores. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 45(3), 450-459.
Niemeijer, A. R., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2008). Frictional behaviour of simulated quartz fault gouges under hydrothermal conditions: Results from ultra-high strain rotary shear experiments. Tectonophysics, 460(1-4), 288-303. [DOI]
Warren, J. K., Urai, J. L., Schléder, Z., Spiers, C. J., Kukla, P. A., Mohr, M., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Maystrenko, Y., Hübscher, C., Hansen, M., Mazur, S., Magri, F., Littke, R., Rodon, S., & Bayer, U. (2008). Salt dynamics. In R. Littke, D. Gajewski, U. Bayer, & S. Nelskamp (Eds.), Dynamics of Complex Intracontinental Basins: The Central European Basin System (pp. 248-344). Springer. [DOI]
van Noort, R., Spiers, C. J., & Pennock, G. M. (2008). Compaction of granular quartz under hydrothermal conditions: Controlling mechanisms and grain boundary processes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 113(B12), B12206-doi:10.1029/2008JB005815.
van Noort, R., Visser, H. J. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2008). Influence of grain boundary structure on dissolution controlled pressure solution and retarding effects of grain boundary healing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 113(B3), B03201.
Liteanu, E., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2008). Failure behaviour of wellbore cement in the presence of water and supercritical CO2. In J. Gale, H. Herzog, & J. Braitsch (Eds.), Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies 9 (pp. 3553-3560). Elsevier. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B984K-4W0SFYG-JC&_user=3021443&_coverDate=02/28/2009&_alid=899015510&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=59073&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=1&_acct=C000021878&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=3021443&md5=d8b4a53c3495e4dd93b06d0e60224de1
2007
Scholarly publications
van Noort, R., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2007). Effects of orientation on the diffusive properties of fluid-filled grain boundaries during pressure solution. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 34(2), 95-112, doi 10.1007/s00269-006-0131-9.
Urai, J. L., & Spiers, C. J. (2007). The effect of grain boundary water on deformation mechanisms and rheology of rocksalt during long-term deformation. In M. Wallner, K.-H. Lux, W. Minkly, & H. R. Hardy (Eds.), The Mechanical Behaviour of Salt-Understanding of THMC processes in Salt Rocks: 6th Conference (SaltMech6), Hannover, Germany, 22-25 May 2007 Taylor & Francis.
Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2007). A microphysical model for strong velocity weakening in phyllosilicate-bearing fault gouges. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 112(B10), B10405. [DOI]
Zhang, X. D., Grupa, C., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2007). Stress relaxation experiments on compacted polycrystalline salt. In M. Wallner, K.-H. Lux, M. Minkley, & H. R. Hardy (Eds.), The Mechanical Behaviour of Salt-Understanding of THMC processes in Salt Rocks: 6th Conference (SaltMech6), Hannover, Germany, 22-25 May 2007 Taylor & Francis.
Pennock, G. M., Zhang, X. D., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2007). Microstructural study of reconsolidated salt: understanding of THMC processes in salt rocks. In M. Wallner, K.-H. Lux, W. Minkley, & H. R. Hardy (Eds.), The Mechanical Behaviour of Salt - Understanding of THMC processes in Salt Rocks: 6th Conference (SaltMech6), Hannover, Germany, 22-25 May 2007 Taylor & Francis.
Other output
Jourdan, A. L., Venneman, T. W., Mullis, J., Ramseyer, K., & Spiers, C. J. (2007). Trace element distributions in hydrothermal quartz: Fluid or structural control?. A451-A451. Abstract from 16th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
2006
Scholarly publications
Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2006). Velocity dependence of strength and healing behaviour in simulated phyllosilicate-bearing fault gouge. Tectonophysics, 427(1-4), 231-253. [DOI]
Jefferies, S. P., Holdsworth, R. E., Wibberley, C. A. J., Shimamoto, T., Spiers, C. J., Niemeijer, A. R., & Lloyd, G. E. (2006). The nature and importance of phyllonite development in crustal-scale fault cores: an example from the Median Tectonic Line, Japan. Journal of Structural Geology, 28(2), 220-235. [DOI]
Piazolo, S., Bestmann, M., Prior, D. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2006). Temperature dependent grain boundary migration in deformed-then-annealed material: observations from experimentally deformed synthetic rocksalt. Tectonophysics, 427, 55-71.
Pennock, G. M., Drury, M. R., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2006). The influence of water on deformation microstructures and textures in synthetic NaCl measured using EBSD. Journal of Structural Geology, 28(4), 588-601.
Pennock, G. M., Drury, M. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2006). Grain boundary populations in wet and dry NaCl. Materials Science and Technology, 22(11), 1307.
Jefferies, S. P., Holdsworth, R. E., Shimamoto, T., Takagi, H., Lloyd, G. E., & Spiers, C. J. (2006). Origin and mechanical significance of foliated cataclastic rocks in the cores of crustal-scale faults: examples from the Median Tectonic Line, Japan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 111(B12), B12303-doi: 10.1029/2005JB004205.
2005
Scholarly publications
ten Grotenhuis, S. M., Drury, M. R., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2005). Melt distribution in olivine rocks based on electrical conductivity measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 110(B12), B12201-doi: 10.1029/2004JB003462. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2004JB003462.shtml
Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2005). Influence of phyllosilicates on fault strength in the brittle-ductile transition: Insights from rock analogue experiments. In D. Bruhn, & L. Burlini (Eds.), High Strain Zones: Structures and Physical Properties (pp. 303-327). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 245). Geological Society. [DOI]
ter Heege, J. H., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (2005). Dynamic recrystallization of wet synthetic polycrystalline halite: dependence of grain size distribution on flow stress, temperature and strain. Tectonophysics, 396(1-2), 35-57.
Zhang, X., & Spiers, C. J. (2005). Effects of phosphate ions on intergranular pressure solution in calcite: an experimental study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69(24), 5681-5691.
Bestmann, M., Piazolo, S., Spiers, C. J., & Prior, D. J. (2005). Microstructural evolution during initial stages of static recovery and recrystallization: new insights from in-situ heating experiments combined with electron backscatter diffraction analysis. Journal of Structural Geology, 27(3), 447-457.
Cuesta, P. T., Wolf, K.-H., Pagnier, H., Spiers, C., & van Bergen, F. (2005). ECBM research within the Dutch CATO Project. In E. S. Rubin, D. W. Keith, C. F. Gilboy, M. Wilson, T. Morris, J. Gale, & K. Thambimuthu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Vancouver, Canada (pp. 2217-2220). (Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies; No. 7-II, part 2). Elsevier. [DOI]
Pennock, G. M., Drury, M. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2005). The development of subgrain misorientations with strain in dry synthetic NaCl measured using EBSD. Journal of Structural Geology, 27(12), 2159-2170.
de Meer, S., Spiers, C. J., & Nakashima, S. (2005). Structure and diffusive properties of fluid-filled grain boundaries: An in-situ study using infrared (micro) spectroscopy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 232(3-4), 403-414.
Zhang, X., & Spiers, C. J. (2005). Compaction of granular calcite by pressure solution at room temperature and effects of pore fluid chemistry. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 42(7-8), 950-960.
ter Heege, J. H., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (2005). Rheological behaviour of synthetic rocksalt: the interplay between water, dynamic recrystallization and deformation mechanisms. Journal of Structural Geology, 27(6), 948-963.
2004
Scholarly publications
ten Grotenhuis, S. M., Drury, M. R., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2004). Electrical properties of fine-grained olivine: Evidence for grain boundary transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 109(B6), B06203-doi: 10.1029/2003JB002799.
Spiers, C. J., de Meer, S., Niemeijer, A. R., & Zhang, X. D. (2004). Kinetics of rock deformation by pressure solution and the role of thin aqueous films. In S. Nakashima, C. J. Spiers, L. Mercury, P. A. Fenter, & M. F. Jr. Hochella (Eds.), Physicochemistry of Water in Geological and Biological Systems: Structures and Properties of Thin Aqueous Films (pp. 129-158). (Frontier Science Series; No. 44). Universal Academy press.
ter Heege, J. H., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (2004). Composite flow laws for crystalline materials with log-normally distributed grain size: Theory and application to olivine. Journal of Structural Geology, 26, 1693-1705.
ten Grotenhuis, S. M., Drury, M. R., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2004). Effect of varying enstatite content on the grain boundary properties in synthetic peridotite. In Proceedings of the CHANNEL users meeting 2004, Ribe Denmark (pp. 74-76)
ter Heege, J. H., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (2004). Dynamic recrystallization of polycrystalline dense NaCl: Dependance of grain size distribution on stress and temperature. Materials Science Forum, 467-470, 1187-1192.
Pennock, G. M., Drury, M. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2004). Investigation of subgrain rotation recrystallization in dry polycrystalline NaCl. In B. Bacroix, J. H. Driver, R. Le Gall, C. Maurice, R. Penelle, H. Réglé, & L. Tabourot (Eds.), Recrystallization and Grain Growth (pp. 597-602)
Nakashima, S., de Meer, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2004). Distribution of thin film water in grain boundaries of crustal rocks and implications for crustal strength. In S. Nakashima, C. J. Spiers, L. Mercury, P. A. Fenter, & M. F. Jr. Hochella (Eds.), Physicochemistry of Water in Geological and Biological Systems: Structures and Properties of Thin Aqueous Films (pp. 159-178). (Frontier Science Series; No. 44). Universal Academy press.
Kellermann Slotemaker, A., de Bresser, J. H. P., Spiers, C. J., & Drury, M. R. (2004). Microstructural evolution of synthetic forsterite aggregates deformed to high strain. In B. Bacroix, J. H. Driver, R. Le Gall, C. Maurice, R. Penelle, H. Réglé, & L. Tabourol (Eds.), Recrystallization and Grain Growth (pp. 579-584)
Zhang, X. D., & Spiers, C. J. (2004). Effect of porosity on the rate of pressure solution. In EURO-Conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics. Scaling Laws in Space and Time
Professional publications
Nakashima, S., Spiers, C. J., Mercury, L., Fenter, P. A., & Jr. Hochella, M. F. (2004). Physicochemistry of Water in Geological and Biological Systems: Structures and Properties of Thin Aqueous Films. (Frontier Science Series ed.) Universal Academic Press.
2003
Scholarly publications
Zhang, X. D., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2003). Effects of pore fluid chemistry on compaction in calcite: an experimental study. In EURO-Conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics, Micromechanics, Flow and Chemical reactions, 7-11 September 2003, Kijkduin, The Netherlands, 2003
Other output
Hirono, T., Nakashima, S., & Spiers, C. J. (2003). Reduction of ionic diffusivity through thin-film and nano pore water in geomaterials. A150-A150. Abstract from Unknown event, Asilomar, USA.
2002
Scholarly publications
Niemeijer, A. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2002). Compaction creep of quartz-muscovite mixtures at 500°C: Preliminary results on the influence of muscovite on pressure solution. In S. de Meer, M. R. Drury, J. H. P. de Bresser, & G. Pennock (Eds.), Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics: Current Status and Future perspectives (pp. 61-71). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 200). Geological Society of London. [DOI]
Bos, B., & Spiers, C. J. (2002). Fluid-assisted healing processes in gouge-bearing faults: Insights from experiments on a rock-analogue system. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159(11-12), 2537-2566.
Pennock, G. M., Drury, M. R., Trimby, P. W., & Spiers, C. J. (2002). Misorientation distributions in hot deformed NaCl using electron backscattered diffraction. Journal of Microscopy, 205(3), 285-294.
ter Heege, J. H., de Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (2002). The influence of dynamic recrystallization on the grain size distribution and rheological behaviour of Carrara marble deformed in axial compression. In S. de Meer, M. R. Drury, J. H. P. de Bresser, & G. Pennock (Eds.), Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics: Current Status and Future perspectives (pp. 331-353). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 200). Geological Society of London. [DOI]
McDonnell, R. D., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2002). Fabrication of dense forsterite-enstatite polycrystals for experimental studies. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 29(1), 19-31.
Niemeijer, A., Spiers, C. J., & Bos, B. (2002). Compaction creep of quartz sand at 400-600°C: Experimental evidence for dissolution-controlled pressure solution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 195(3-4), 261-275. [DOI]
de Meer, S., Spiers, C. J., Peach, C. J., & Watanabe, T. (2002). Diffusive properties of fluid-filled grain boundaries measured electrically during active pressure solutions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 200(1-2), 147-157.
Zhang, X. D., Salemans, J., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2002). Compaction experiments on wet calcite powder at room temperature: evidence for operation of intergranular pressure solution. In S. de Meer, M. R. Drury, J. H. P. de Bresser, & G. Pennock (Eds.), Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics: Current Status and Future perspectives (pp. 29-39). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 200). Geological Society of London. [DOI]
Bos, B., & Spiers, C. J. (2002). Frictional-viscous flow of phyllosilicate-bearing fault rock: Microphysical model and implications for crustal strength profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 107(B2), B2028-doi: 10.1029/2001JB000301. [DOI]
Pennock, G. M., Drury, M. R., Trimby, P. W., & Spiers, C. J. (2002). Erratum on "Misorientation distributions in hot deformed NaCl using electron backscattered diffraction (vol 205(3), pg 285, 2002)". Journal of Microscopy, 208(1), 75.
2001
Scholarly publications
de Bresser, J. H. P., ter Heege, J. H., & Spiers, C. J. (2001). Grain size reduction by dynamic recrystallization: Can it result in major rheological weakening? Geologische Rundschau, 90, 28-45.
Peach, C. J., Spiers, C. J., & Trimby, P. W. (2001). Effect of confining pressure on dilatation, recrystallization and flow of rocksalt at 150°C. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(B7), 13315-13328.
Bos, B., & Spiers, C. J. (2001). Experimental investigation into microstructural and mechanical evolution of phyllosilicate-bearing fault rock under conditions favouring pressure solution. Journal of Structural Geology, 23, 1187-1202.
Other output
Nakashima, S., de Meer, S., Spiers, C. J., Famin, V., & Hirono, T. (2001). Physicochemical properties of water in grain boundaries. "Hard" water in the deep crust and the origin of earthquakes?. 271-278. Abstract from Unknown event, Asilomar, USA.
2000
Scholarly publications
McDonnell, R. D., Peach, C. J., van Roermund, H. L. M., & Spiers, C. J. (2000). The effect of varrying enstatite content on the deformation behaviour of fine-grained synthetic peridodite under wet conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 13535-13553.
Bos, B., & Spiers, C. J. (2000). Effect of phyllosilicates on fluid-assisted healing of gouge-bearing faults. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 184, 199-210.
Bos, B., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2000). Frictional-viscous flow of simulated fault gouge caused by the combined effects of phyllosilicates and pressure solution. Tectonophysics, 327, 173-194.
de Meer, S., Spiers, C. J., & Peach, C. J. (2000). Kinetics of precipitation of gypsum and implications for pressure solution creep. Journal of the Geological Society, 157, 269-281.
Trimby, P. W., Drury, M. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2000). Misorientations across etched boundaries in deformed rocksalt: a study using electron backscatter diffraction. Journal of Structural Geology, 22, 81-89.
Bos, B., Peach, C. J., & Spiers, C. J. (2000). Slip behaviour of simulated gouge-bearing faults under conditions favoring pressure solution. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 16699-16717.
Trimby, P. W., Drury, M. R., & Spiers, C. J. (2000). Recognising the crystallographic signature of recrystallization processes in deformed rocks: a study of experimentally deformed rocksalt. Journal of Structural Geology, 22(11-12), 1609-1620.
1997
Scholarly publications
De Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (1997). Strength characteristics of the r, f, and c slip systems in calcite. Tectonophysics, 272(1), 1-23. [DOI]
1990
Scholarly publications
De Bresser, J. H. P., & Spiers, C. J. (1990). High-temperature deformation of calcite single crystals by r+ and f+ slip. In R. J. Knipe, & E. H. Rutter (Eds.), Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics (Vol. 54, pp. 285-298). (Geological Society Special Publication). Geological Society of London. [DOI]