Lecturer.

Responsibilities.

Adviser of Studies. Course Coordinator GL3023.

Courses taught.

GL1004, GL2511, GL3023, GL3024, GL3512, GL4520.

Research Interests.

Mechanics, thermodynamics and chemistry of rock deformation; patterns of fractures and shear zones, brittle damage, all kinds of anisotropy and the links between deformation and reaction

Selected Publications

• Healy, D. 2009. Anisotropy, pore fluid pressure and low angle normal faults. Journal of Structural Geology, 31, pp 561-574, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.03.001.
• Healy, D., Reddy, S.M., Timms, N.E., Gray, E.M. & Vitale Brovarone, A. 2009. Trench-parallel fast axes of seismic anisotropy due to fluid-filled cracks in subducting slabs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 283, pp 75-86, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.037.
• Healy, D. 2008. Damage patterns, stress rotations and pore fluid pressure in strike-slip fault zones. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B12407, doi:10.1029/2008JB005655.
• Healy, D., Jones, R.R. & Holdsworth, R.E. 2006. New insights into the development of brittle shear fractures from a 3D numerical model of microcrack interaction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 249, pp 14-28, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.041.
• Healy, D., Jones, R.R. & Holdsworth, R.E. 2006. Three-dimensional brittle shear fracturing by tensile crack interaction. Nature, 439, pp 64-67, doi:10.1038/nature04346.
• Healy, D., Yielding, G. & Kusznir, N.J. 2004. Fracture prediction for the 1980 El Asnam, Algeria earthquake via elastic dislocation modelling. Tectonics, 23, doi:10.1029/2003TC001575.

Contact Details

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