Albert de Montserrat

ETH Zurich | ETH Zürich · Geological Institute

Prediction of mineral phase assemblages is essential to better understand the dynamics of the solid Earth, such as metamorphic processes, magmatism and the formation of mineral ore deposits. While recently developed thermodynamic databases allow the prediction of stable phase mineral assemblages for an increasing range of pressure, temperature and...

Mechanical anisotropy related to rock fabrics is a proxy for constraining the Earth's deformation patterns. However, the forward and inverse modelling of mechanical anisotropy in 3D large-scale domains has been traditionally hampered by the intensive computational cost and the lack of a dedicated, open-source computational framework. Here we introd...

Uplifted Pleistocene marine terrace sequences are used to quantify uplift rates along active margins by knowing terrace age and elevation, and sea level (SL) position at the time of terrace formation. When terraces are undated, ages are assigned by correlating terraces at progressively higher elevations with progressively older highstands. Uplift a...

Mechanical anisotropy related to rock fabrics is a proxy for constraining the Earth’s deformation patterns. However, the forward and inverse modelling of mechanical anisotropy in 3D large-scale domains has been traditionally hampered by the intensive computational cost and the lack of a dedicated, open-source computational framework. Here we introd...

Non-volcanic tremor is a particularly enigmatic form of seismic activity. In its most studied subduction zone setting, tremor typically occurs within the plate interface at or near the shallow and deep edges of the interseismically locked zone. Detailed seismic observations have shown that tremor is composed of repeating small low-frequency earthqu...

Rocks of the Earth's crust and mantle commonly consist of different minerals with contrasting mechanical properties. During progressive, high‐temperature (ductile) deformation, these rocks develop extrinsic mechanical anisotropy linked to strain partitioning between different minerals, amount of accumulated strain, and bulk strain geometry. Extrins...

We present LaCoDe (Lagrangian Compressible Deformation), a MATLAB solver for the Stokes equations for compressible non-Newtonian visco-elastic flow in two dimensions, based on a Lagrangian formulation of the Finite Element Method. The incompressible Boussinesq approximation is a widespread assumption in numerical models of lithospheric deformation,...

Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2017 in New Orleans, US