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Clayrocks, and shales in particular, represent approximately two-third of all sedimentary rocks. In oil and gas drilling operations, shales constitute 80 % of all the drilled sections, mainly because they overlie most hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs. Furthermore, several countries are considering clayrocks as possible host lithologies for radioactive waste confinement, and therefore carrying out...

The IRAM Plateau de Bure mm interferometer and deep K-band imaging have been used to identify the brightest submm source detected in the Lockman field of the UK 8 mJy SCUBA survey. The near infrared counterpart is an extended (20–30 kpc), clumpy, and extremely red object. The spectral energy distribution suggests it to be a dusty star forming object at a redshift of about 3 (2–4). Its star form...

In the context of feasibility study for geological disposal radioactive waste, this work focuses on numerical modeling hydromechanical response and induced damage zones around an experimental gallery at underground research laboratory (URL) Bure in France. A new phase-field method is first proposed by considering two independent fields order to easily describe both tensile shear cracks. The ext...