Break-Through Rocks

Project Information

BREAK

Grant agreement ID: 101019628

DOI

10.3030/101019628

EC signature date 29 June 2021

Start date 1 January 2022

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 3 421 845,00

EU contribution

€ 3 421 845,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Tracking Intragranular Stress Evolution in Deforming Sandstone Using X‐Rays

Author(s): Jean‐Baptiste Jacob, Benoît Cordonnier, Wenlu Zhu, A. R. Vishnu, Jonathan Wright, François Renard
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 130, 2025, Page(s) e2025JB031614, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2025jb031614

How Do Earthquakes Stop? Insights From a Minimal Model of Frictional Rupture

Author(s): F. Barras, K. Thøgersen, E. Aharonov, F. Renard
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Issue 128, 2023, Page(s) e2022JB026070, ISSN 2169-9356
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2022jb026070

Four-dimensional X-ray micro-tomography imaging of dynamicprocesses in geosciences

Author(s): C. Noiriel, F. Renard
Published in: Comptes Rendus Geosciences, Issue 354, 2022, Page(s) 255-280, ISSN 1631-0713
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
DOI: 10.5802/crgeos.137

Mixed-mode deformation in a rock bridge between two fault segments

Author(s): Erina Prastyani, Benoît Cordonnier, Jessica McBeck, Jérôme Weiss, François Renard
Published in: Tectonophysics, Issue 897, 2025, Page(s) 230624, ISSN 0040-1951
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2025.230624

The evolving representative elementary volume size in crystalline and granular rocks under triaxial compression approaching macroscopic failure

Author(s): J. McBeck, B. Cordonnier, F. Renard
Published in: Geophysical Journal International, Issue 232, 2022, Page(s) 1898–1913, ISSN 0956-540X
Publisher: Geological Society by Blackwell Scientific
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac426

A Minimal Model Illuminates the Physics of Pulse‐Like Seismic Rupture and Oscillatory Slip Rates in Damaged Faults

Author(s): Fabian Barras, Einat Aharonov, François Renard
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 52, 2025, Page(s) e2024GL111189, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2024gl111189

Exploiting Friedel pairs to interpret scanning 3DXRD data from complex geological materials

Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Jacob, Jonathan Wright, Benoît Cordonnier, François Renard
Published in: Journal of Applied Crystallography, Issue 57, 2024, Page(s) 1823-1840, ISSN 1600-5767
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1107/s1600576724009634

Pressure Solution Grain Boundary Sliding as a Large Strain Mechanism of Superplastic Flow in the Upper Crust

Author(s): Jean‐Pierre Gratier, Luca Menegon, François Renard
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 128, 2024, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2022jb026019

Deep‐Learning Analysis of Fracture Networks Leading to System‐Size Failure in Rocks

Author(s): Joachim Mathiesen, Jessica McBeck, Benoît Cordonnier, Yehuda Ben‐Zion, François Renard
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 2993-5210
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023jh000103

Deriving Three-Dimensional Properties of Fracture Networks From Two-Dimensional Observations in Rocks Approaching Failure Under Triaxial Compression: Implications for Fluid Flow

Author(s): J. McBeck, F. Renard
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 58, 2022, Page(s) e2022WR032783, ISSN 1944-7973
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2022wr032783

Predicting the location of the process zone in triaxial compression experiments on Darley Dale sandstone

Author(s): Jessica McBeck, François Renard
Published in: Geophysical Journal International, Issue 242, 2025, Page(s) ggaf241, ISSN 0956-540X
Publisher: Geological Society by Blackwell Scientific
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggaf241

Exhumation-induced residual stress in undeformed ultra-high-pressure metamorphic rock

Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Jacob, Hugo van Schrojenstein Lantman, Benoît Cordonnier, Luca Menegon, Jonathan Wright, François Renard
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Issue 671, 2025, Page(s) 119615, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119615

Dynamic Evolution of Porosity in Lower-Crustal Faults During the Earthquake Cycle

Author(s): S. Michalchuk, S. Zertani, F. Renard, F. Fusseis, A. Chogani, O. Plümper, L. Menegon
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Issue 128, 2023, Page(s) e2023JB026809, ISSN 2169-9356
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2023jb026809

Deformation evolves from shear to extensile in rocks due to energy optimization

Author(s): Jess McBeck, Benoît Cordonnier, Michele Cooke, Laura Fattaruso, François Renard
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 352, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-01023-w

Fault surface morphology as an indicator for earthquake nucleation potential

Author(s): A. M. Eijsink; J. D. Kirkpatrick; F. Renard; M. J. Ikari
Published in: Geology, Issue 50, 2022, Page(s) 1356-1360, ISSN 0091-7613
Publisher: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/g50258.1

Nanoscale Damage Production by Dynamic Tensile Rupture in α-Quartz

Author(s): M. G. Guren, H. A. Sveinsson, A. Malthe-Sørenssen, F. Renard
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 49, 2022, Page(s) e2022GL100468, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2022gl100468

The Influence of Confining Pressure and Preexisting Damage on Strain Localization in Fluid-Saturated Crystalline Rocks in the Upper Crust

Author(s): J. McBeck, B. Cordonnier, Y. Ben-Zion, F. Renard
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Issue 128, 2023, Page(s) e2023JB026987, ISSN 2169-9356
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2023jb026987

Spatial Persistence of High Strain Events During Brittle Failure

Author(s): Jessica McBeck, Benoît Cordonnier, Wenlu Zhu, François Renard
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 51, 2025, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2024gl110668

Gas Migration Episodes Observed During Peridotite Alteration in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

Author(s): J. M. Aiken, R. A. Sohn, F. Renard, J. Matter, P. Kelemen, B. Jamtveit
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 49, 2022, Page(s) e2022GL100395, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2022gl100395