John Browning

John Browning

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Ingeniería Estructural y Geotécnica 

Departamento de Ingeniería de Minería

Investigador asociado: Centro de excelencia en geotermia de los Andes (CEGA)

Contacto: jbrowning [at] ing [dot] puc [dot] cl

Pagina web personal: https://www.jbrowning.info

Resumen de la investigación: Estoy interesado en comprender el sistema de migración de magmas y fluidos bajo los volcanes y especialmente el modelado de campos de esfuerzo y procesos controlados por el estado termal de la corteza. Entre ellos, me enfoco en la formación/ruptura de los reservorios de magma, su migración y emplazamiento, el colapso de calderas y el desarrollo de reservorios geotérmicos. Comúnmente, mis estudiantes y yo combinamos métodos de campo, modelado numérico y métodos experimentales de la física de rocas para abordar los problemas volcano-tectónicos.

Proyectos actuales: Fondecyt 11190143 – Mechanical architecture and dynamic evolution of caldera faults.
Este proyecto utiliza datos de deformación de la roca de campo, numéricos y experimentales para obtener información sobre la dinámica de la deformación de la caldera, la evolución de las propiedades físicas de la roca y el emplazamiento del magma. 

Cursos: 

ICE3653 – Mecánica de Rocas

ICE2029 – Peligros superficiales y peligros geológicos

ICE2023 – Campo Geologia (Capstone)

IMM2083 – Mecánica de Rocas de Minería

Publicaciones más recientes:

Panteleev, I., Lyakhovsky, V., Browning, J., Meredith, P., Healy, D., Mitchell, T., 2021. Non-Linear anisotropic damage rheology model: Theory and experimental verification. European Journal of Mechanics -A/Solids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2020.104085

Daoud, A., Browning, J., Meredith, P.G. and Mitchell, T.M., (2020) Microstructural controls on thermal crack damage and the presence of a temperature‐memory effect during cyclic thermal stressing of rocks. Geophysical Research Letters. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL088693

Ruz, J., Browning, J., Cembrano, J., Iturrieta, P., Gerbault, M. and Sielfeld, G., 2020. Field observations and numerical models of a Pleistocene-Holocene feeder dyke swarm associated with a fissure complex to the east of the Tatara-San Pedro-Pellado complex, Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, p.107033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107033

Geshi, N., Browning, J. and Kusumoto, S., 2020. Magmatic overpressures, volatile exsolution and potential explosivity of fissure eruptions inferred via dike aspect ratios. Scientific Reports, 10(1), pp.1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66226-z

Karaoğlu, Ö., Bayer, Ö., Turgay, M.B. and Browning, J., 2020. Thermomechanical interactions between crustal magma chambers in complex tectonic environments: Insights from Eastern Turkey. Tectonophysics, p.228607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228607

Browning, J; Tuffen, H; James, M; Owen, J; Webber, H and Castro, J. (2020). Post-fragmentation vesiculation timescales in hydrous rhyolitic bombs from Chaiten volcano. South American journal of Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102807

Forbes-Inskip, N., Meredith, P., Browning, J., Gudmundsson, A. (2020) Propagation and arrest of fractures in layered rocks. Results in Geophysical Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ringps.2020.100001

Drymoni, K., Browning, J and Gudmundsson, A. (2020) Dyke-arrest scenarios in extensional regimes: insights from field observations and numerical models, Santorini, Greece. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106854

Lemnifi, A.A., Liu, L. and Browning, J., (2020). Lithospheric layering beneath northern Central Africa by S-to-P receiver functions. Journal of African Earth Sciences, p.103827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103827

Sepulveda, J., Arancibia, G., Molina, E., Gilbert, P., Duda, M., Browning, J., Roquer, T., Morata, D., Bracke, R (2020). Thermo-mechanical behaviour of a granodiorite from the Liqune fractured geothermal system (39°S), related to the Liquine-Ofqui fault system in the Southern Volcanic Zone. Geothermics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2020.101828

Ostermeijer, G.A., Mitchell, T.M., Aben, F.M., Dorsey, M.T., Rockwell, T.K., Fletcher, J.M., Browning, J. (2020). Damage zone heterogeneity on seismogenic faults in crystalline rock; a field study of the Borrego Fault, Baja California. Journal of Structural Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104016

Gaunt, H.E., Burgisser, A., Mothes, P.A., Browning, J., Meredith, P.G., Criollo, E. and Bernard, B., 2020. Triggering of the powerful 14 July 2013 Vulcanian explosion at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, p.106762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106762