Selected Recent Publications

(Current or past members in bold)

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Graham, C.C., S. Stanchits, I. G. Main & G. Dresen (2010). Source analysis of acoustic emission data: a comparison of polarity and moment tensor inversion methods, Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. 47, 161–169.LINK

Baraka-Lokmane,S., I. G. Main, B. T. Ngwenya, S. C. Elphick, C. Jones, and S. A. Hamilton (2009). Correlation between microstructure and flow behavior in porous sandstones, Petroleum Science and Technology 27, 511-529. PDF

Baraka-Lokmane, S., I.G. Main, B.T. Ngwenya & S.C. Elphick (2009). Application of complementary methods for more robust characterization of sandstone cores, Marine and Petroleum Geology 26, 39-56. PDF

Kay, M.A., I. G. Main, S. C. Elphick & B. T. Ngwenya (2006). Fault-gouge diagenesis at shallow burial depth: solution-precipitation reactions in well-sorted and poorly-sorted powders of crushed sandstone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 243, 607-614. PDF

Kwon, O., B.T. Ngwenya, I.G. Main & S.C. Elphick (2005). Permeability evolution during deformation of siliclastic sandstones from Moab, in Utah, in Sorkhabi, R. & Y. Tsuji (eds.), American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 85, Faults, Fluid Flow, and Petroleum Traps, 219-236. PDF

From the back catalogue

Ojala I O., I. G. Main & B. T. Ngwenya (2004). Strain rate and temperature dependence of Omori law scaling constants of AE data: implications for earthquake foreshock-aftershock sequences. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L24617, doi: 10.1029/2004GL020781 PDF

Bruderer-Weng, C., P. Cowie, Y. Bernabe & I.G. Main (2004). Relating flow channelling to tracer dispersion in heterogeneous networks, Advances in Water Resources 27, 843-855. PDF

Song, I., S.C. Elphick, N. Odling, I.G. Main & B.T. Ngwenya (2004). Hydro-mechanical behaviours of fine-grained materials from the Aigion fault zone, Greece: Calcilutite versus fault gouge, Comptes Rendus Geoscience 336, 445-454. PDF

Song, I., S.C. Elphick, I.G. Main, B.T. Ngwenya, N.W. Odling, & N.F. Smyth (2004). One-dimensional fluid diffusion induced by constant-rate flow injection: theoretical analysis and application to the determination of fluid permeability and specific storage of a cored rock sample, Journal of Geophysical Research 109, B05207, doi:10.1029/2002JB002395. PDF

Ojala, I., B. T. Ngwenya & I.G. Main (2004). Loading rate dependence of permeability evolution in porous aeolian sandstones Journal of Geophysical Research 109, No. B1, B01204 10.1029/2002JB 002347. PDF

Ngwenya, B.T., O. Kwon, S.C. Elphick & I.G. Main (2003). Permeability evolution during progressive development of deformation bands in porous sandstones, Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (B7), 2345, doi:1029/2002JB001854. PDF

Ojala, I.O., B.T. Ngwenya, I.G. Main & S.C. Elphick (2003). Correlation of microseismic and chemical properties of brittle deformation in Locharbriggs sandstone, Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (B5), 2268, doi:10.1029/2002JB002277. PDF

Grueschow, E., O. Kwon, I.G. Main & J.W. Rudnicki (2003). Observation and modeling of the suction pump effect during rapid dilatant slip, Geophysical Research Letters 30 (5), 1226, doi:10.1029/2002GL015905. PDF

Baraka-Lokmane, S., R. Liedl & G. Teutsch (2003). Comparison of Measured and Modelled Hydraulic Conductivities of Fractured Sandstone Cores, Pure and Applied Geophysics 160, 904-927.

Vlastos, S., E. Liu, X.-Y. Li & I.G. Main (2003). Numerical simulation of wave propagation in media with discrete distributions of fractures: effects of fracture sizes and spatial distributions, Geophysical Journal International 152, 649-668. PDF

Mair, K., S. Elphick & I. Main (2002). Influence of confining pressure on the mechanical and structural evolution of laboratory deformation bands, Geophysical Research Letters 29, 10.1029/2001GL013964.PDF

Colombo S.,I.G Main, M.C. Forde J. Halliday (2002). Acoustic emission on bridges: experiments on concrete beams", in Mazal, P. (ed.), Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Acoustic Emission Testing EWGAE2002, Prague, Vol. 1, 127-134.

Baraka-Lokmane, S. (2002). Hydraulic versus pneumatic measurements of fractured sandstone permeability, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 36 (3-4), 183-192. PDF

Baraka-Lokmane, S. (2002). A New Resin Impregnation Technique for Characterising Fracture Geometry in Sandstone Cores, International Journal of Rock Mecahnics and Mining Sciences 39 (6), 815-823. PDF

Baraka-Lokmane, S., I.G. Main, S. Elphick & B. Ngwenya (2001). Complementary methods for characterising Slick Rock Aeolian Sandstone Society of Core Analysis 42, 1-5. PDF

Baraka-Lokmane, S., G. Teutsch & I.G. Main (2001). Influence of open and sealed fractures on fluid flow and water saturation in sandstone cores using magnetic resonance imaging, Geophysical Journal International 147, 263-271. PDF

Ngwenya, B.T., I.G. Main, & S.C., Elphick (2001). A constitutive law for low-temperature creep of water-saturated sandstones, Journal of Geophysical Research 106, 21811-21826. PDF

Main, I.G., K. Mair,O. Kwon, S.C. Elphick, & B.T. Nygwenya, (2001). Experimental constraints on the mechanical and hydraulic properties of deformation bands in porous sandstones: a review, The Nature and Tectonic Significance of Fault Zone Weakening. Geological Society. London, Special Publications, 186, 43-63.

Main, I.G., O. Kwon, B.T. Nygwenya, & S.C. Elphick, (2000). Fault sealing during deformation-band growth in porous sandstone, Geology 28, 1131-1134. PDF

Nygwenya, B.T., S.C. Elphick, I.G. Main, & G.B. Shimmield (2000). Experimental constraints on the diagenetic self-sealing capacity of faults in high porosity rocks, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 183, 187-199. PDF

Mair, K., I.G. Main & S.C. Elphick (2000). Sequential development of deformation bands in the laboratory, Journal of Structural Geology, 22, 25-42.

Maillot, B., S. Nielsen & I. Main (1999). Numerical simulation of seismicity due to fluid injection in a brittle poro-elastic medium, Geophysical Journal International 139, 263-272.

Palumbo, P., I.G. Main & G. Zito (1999). Thermal evolution of sedimentary basins and the maturation of hydrocarbons, Geophysical Journal International 139, 248-260.

Main, I., B. Ngwenya, S. Elphick, B. Smart, B. Crawford, & C. Poux (1996). Scale limits on fluid pressure diffusion during rapid self-sealing deformation and fluid flow, In Aubertin, M., F. Hassani & H. Mitri (eds.), Rock Mechanics Vol. 2, Balkema, Rotterdam, 1161-1168.

Elphick, S.C.E, B.T. Ngwenya & G.B. Shimmield (1996). Ion microprobe imaging as a tool for elucidating water flood reactions, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 80, 713-720.

Ngwenya, B.T., G.B. Shimmield & S.C. Elphick (1995). Reservoir sensitivity to waterflooding: an experimental study, Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 79, 285-304.

Liakopoulou-Morris, F., I.G. Main, B. Crawford & B.G.D. Smart (1994). Microseismic properties of a homogeneous sandstone during fault development and frictional sliding, Geophysical Journal International, 119, 219-230.

Main, I.G., B.G.D. Smart, G.B. Shimmield, S.C. Elphick, B. Crawford and B. Ngwenya (1994). The effects of combined changes in pore-fluid chemistry and stress state on permeability in reservoir analogues, in Aasen, J.O. et al. (eds.) North Sea Oil and Gas Reservoirs III, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 357-370.