Publications

• Seltzer, C., Peč, M., Zimmerman, M., Kohlstedt, D., (2023)   Melt network reorientation and crystallographic preferred orientation development in sheared partially molten rocks. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 24(9), e2023GC010927.

 

• O’Ghaffari, H., Peč, M., ^#Mittal, T., ^#Mok, U., *Chang, H., Evans, B. (2023) Microscopic Defect Dynamics of a Brittle-to-Ductile Transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2305667120

 

• Ortega-Arroyo, D.,  Peč, M., (2023) A Closer Look into Slickenslides: Deformation on and under fault surfaces. Journal of Structural Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104860

 

• Boneh, Y., Pec, M., Hirth, G., (2023)    High-pressure mechanical properties of talc – Implications for fault strength and slip processes. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025815

 

2022:

• Hoyos, S., Florez, D., Pec, M., Huber, C. (2022) Crystal shape control on the repacking and jamming of crystal-rich mushes. Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100040

• Bernabé, Y., Pec, M., (2022).  Brittle creep and brittle failure of rocks: a reformulation of the wing crack model   Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB024610. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024610

• Xing, T., Ghaffari, H. O., Mok, U., & Pec, M. (2022)                                                    Creep of CarbFix basalts: influence of rock-fluid interaction.             Solid Earth, 13(1), 137–160. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-137-2022

2021:

• Sun, H., Pec, M., (2021)                                                                                                  Nanometric flow and earthquake instability.                                               Nature Communications, 12, 6779, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26996-0

 

• Ranganathan, M., Minchew, B., Meyer, C., Peč, M., (2021)                Recrystallization of ice enhances the vulnerability of ice shelves to fracture.                                                                                                                                    Earth and Planetary Science Letters 576, 117219, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117219

 

• Ghaffari, H., Mok, U., Pec, M., (2021)                                                                                 On Calibration of Piezoelectric Sensors with Laser Doppler Vibrometer                                                                                                                                Journal of Acoustical Society of America, doi: 10.1121/10.0006445

 

• Pec, M., Al Nasser, S. (2021)                                                                                Formation of Nanocrystalline and Amorphous Materials Causes Parallel Brittle‐viscous Flow of Crustal Rocks: Experiments on Quartz – Feldspar Aggregates                                                                                      Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1029/2020JB021262

2020:

• Ghaffari, H.O., Pec, M., (2020)                                                                                          An ultrasound probe array for a high-pressure, high-temperature solid medium deformation apparatus. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91, no. 8 (2020): 085117.

 

• Pec, M., Holtzman, B., Zimmerman, M., Kohlstedt, D., (2020)                Influence of Lithology on Reactive Melt Chanelization                                                                                                                            Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC008937
  

2019:

• Quintanilla-Terminel, A., Dillman, A., Pec, M., Diedrich, G., Kohlstedt, D., (2019)                                                                                                                                           Radial melt segregation during extrusion of partially molten rocks    Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008168
  

 

• Ghaffari, H., Griffith, W., Pec, M., (2019)                                                   Solitonic State in Microscopic Dynamic Failures                                              Scientific Reports,  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38037-w

2018:

• Reber, J.E., Pec, M., (2018)                                                                                            Comparison of brittle-and viscous creep in quartzites: Implications for semi-brittle flow of rocks                                                                                Journal of Structural Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.05.022

2017:

• Pec, M., Holtzman, B., Zimmerman, M., Kohlstedt, D., (2017)
  Reaction infiltration instabilities in mantle rocks: An experimental investigation
  Journal of Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egx043
  

2016:

• Pec, M., Stünitz, H., Heilbronner, R., Drury, M.R. (2016)
  Semi-brittle flow of a granitoid fault rocks in experiments
  Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012513

2015:

• Pec, M., Holtzman, B., Zimmerman, M., Kohlstedt, D., (2015)                           Reaction infiltration instabilities in experiments on partially molten mantle rocks
  Geology, doi: 10.1130/G36611.1