Audrey Bonnelye and others (including myself) published a manuscript on a new project in Underground Laboratory in Tournemire (France). The CHENILLE project’s overarching goal is to gain a better understanding of the physical processes brought on by thermal and hydraulic loading in a tiny fault zone in a highly cemented shale formation. Therefore, in the Tournemire/France Underground Research Laboratory, a thermally controlled in-situ fluid injection experiment will be conducted on a strike-slip fault zone outcropping (URL). The injection will be monitored with active and passive methods including ultrasonic transmission, acoustic emission, broadband seismic, distributed acoustic and temperature sensing.
Reference:
Bonnelye, A., P. Dick, M. Bohnhoff, F. Cotton, R. Giese, J. Henninges, D. Jougnot, G. Kwiatek, and S. Lüth (2023). CHENILLE: Coupled Behavior Understanding of Faults: from the Laboratory to the Field, Adv. Geosci. 58, 177–188, DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-58-177-2023. [ Article Page ]