Geology rheology mini-session (RVF 2025)
Geology rheology
Geology rheology minisession poster
Organizers
Christine Cardinal Roberts (Sandia National Lab)
Sujit Datta (Caltech)
Summary
Material deformation is at the heart of many geophysical processes including mudslides, avalanches, flow of glaciers or lava, fracture of rocks or ice, and sediment transport in rivers. The geosciences community routinely employs the same concepts that are familiar to the rheology community, (e.g. granular friction, force chains, poroelasticity) although the length and timescales and the experimental methods may be different.
This RVF-funded mini-session was held at the Society of Rheology’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Santa Fe to highlight the importance of rheology in studying complex geological flows and foster new collaborative growth between these two important fields.
Six speakers (Justin Burton, Ching-Yao Lai, Xiaojing Fu, Nathalie Vriend, Rachel Glad, Carly Donahue) have deliverd engaging talks followed by a collaboration lunch event where members of rheology and geosciences fields can co-mingle and discuss intersections in their fields.
