Florian Fusseis

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that mechanical and chemical potentials control a syndeformational porosity generation in mid-crustal shear zones and this model explains fluid transfer through the middle crust, where strain localization in the creep regime is required for plate tectonics, the formation of giant ore deposits, mantle degassing and earthquake nucleation.

TL;DR: Using x-ray synchrotron microtomography, three-dimensional data on melt distribution for mantle peridotite with various melt fractions is obtained and it is shown that the porosity of the partially molten region beneath ocean ridges is controlled by a balance between viscous compaction and melting rate, not by a change in melt topology.

TL;DR: A crustal-scale shear zone network at the fossil brittle-to-viscous transition exposed at Cap de Creus, NE Spain evolved by coeval fracturing and viscous, mylonitic overprinting of an existing foliation.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the general approach to data acquisition, post-processing, and analysis of X-ray micro-tomography is presented, and the potential applications in structural geology and rock mechanics are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the deformation mechanisms, fluid-rock interaction, and development of porosity in a monzonite ultramylonite from Lofoten, northern Norway were investigated.