FoaLab

FoaLab is a group of researchers and students working to elucidate geophysical processes involving fluid mechanics and phase changes.

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Africa–Oxford Catalyst Grant call for applications https://t.co/Vu3XBrQMBM closing 27 Oct. FoaLab currently hosting Dr Ikenna Obasi from Lokoja Uni, Nigeria, to work on hydrology of fractured terranes.

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A km-thick layer of halite blankets much of the east Med basin. In places, overpressured reservoir fluids repeatedly burst through this seal. Why don't these eruptions relieve the pressure? Luke Kearney has shown that mudstone is a capacitor of pressure. https://t.co/ZZg2P0upnD

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Video from this paper showing our model of magmatic rifting and its associated force now on the FoaLab YouTube channel: https://t.co/6Mujme8Mty

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Magmatic dykes are a key control on the mechanics of continental and oceanic rifts. Consistently modelling that is a major challenge. FoaLab postdoc Yuan Li has made a big step forward with a new viscoelastic-viscoplastic two-phase theory. https://t.co/xw7W6uA6Yc @ERC_Research

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Oxford Physics is seeking to recruit candidates for an Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow position in Physics of Exoplanets. https://t.co/ezSHrMCokw

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Attention UK-home students with a solid (no pun intended) training in continuum mechanics and PDEs! FoaLab is seeking applicants for a fully-funded PhD project at Oxford in tidal mechanics of planetary bodies. More information here: https://t.co/RHArK56HlQ @planetaryHam

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Thursday: Unbending connects sea level to faulting at fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges. Lead author Richard Katz. EGU23-2721 (talk, 09:25��09:35, Room -2.91). Session https://t.co/L6G0z4G4Ge

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FoaLab is going to #EGU23 in Vienna! We've got 6 exciting presentations over four days. Here they are, with links to the abstracts. Hope to see you there! @OxUniEarthSci

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Wednesday: Granular dilatancy of deforming, partially molten rock. Lead author Richard Katz. EGU23-3098 (talk, 17:00–17:10, Room D2). Session https://t.co/CD2YQMt84s

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The joint ICTP-EAIFR-IUGG Workshop on Computational Geodynamics: Towards Building a New Expertise Across Africa is now open for registration and abstract submission! Katz is a speaker https://t.co/GvjVuIVz3o. The meeting will be held in Kigali at the Univ Rwanda.

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Do faith-based extrapolations of olivine rheology from lab to mantle conditions concern you? Ever wondered why n=3.5? A new paper by Tom Breithaupt models the dislocation physics to parsimoniously explain olivine transient and steady creep, and more. https://t.co/ytw1egRoE9

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FoaLab has to admit that it won't reach you by tooting via Mastadon and so is reluctantly returning to Twitter.

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Dismayed by recent developments at Twitter, FoaLab is now tooting from https://t.co/YcpSmNCkuY. Please join us there and help us to follow your science!

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Resources for sustainable energy: ore formation by percolative reactive flow https://t.co/vF6rTwdz3Q is for those with an interest in dynamic petrology and resources who have quantitative geological training. Co-supervised by Prof Jon Blundy and Dr Elena Melekhova.

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Three PhD projects are advertised for collaborative research in the FoaLab. For more information about Oxford graduate admissions please see https://t.co/I7TrSV46LW. Contact Richard Katz with questions.

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From dislocations to subduction: the microphysics of olivine deformation and its geodynamic implications https://t.co/wiFmhrQzcy is for those with an interest in rock mechanics and training in physics or fluid dynamics. Co-supervised by Prof Peter Howell and Dr Tom Breithaupt.