Pierre Robin

Pierre Robin

First Name: 
Pierre
Last Name: 
Robin
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Professor Emeritus
Education: 
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MSc, University of Toronto
Civil and Mining Engineer, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Métallurgie et de l’Industrie des Mines, Nancy, France

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Physical chemistry of deformation and phase transitions within minerals:

  • Thermodynamics and stress
  • Theory and models of coherent transformation reactions within crystals: coherent exsolution, shear-induced coherent transitions, order-disorder transitions

Physical chemistry of deformation of polymineralic rocks under crustal conditions of temperature, pressure, humidity, etc.:

  • Physical chemistry of diffusion transfer in rocks, induced by stress (alias pressure solution) or by metamorphic reactions
  • Modelling and interpretation of textures caused by interaction of deformation with diagenetic and metamorphic reactions
  • Development of tectonic layering and cleavage
  • Fluid flow within and toward shear zones
  • Migmatization, migmatites, melting under stress

Measurement of large “paleostrains”, and, more generally, objective, numerical description of the fabrics of rocks:

  • Numerical methods of strain analysis in deformed rocks, statistical evaluation of the results, petrographic image analysis
  • Graphical representation and evaluation of oriented fabric data

Tectonics:

  • PreCambrian tectonics: selected problems in Archean, Hudsonian and Grenvillian orogenic belts
  • Mathematical and numerical modelling of deformation in tectonic belts

Fluid flow through porous media:

  • Laboratory measurements and interpretation of very low permeabilities in rocks
  • Theoretical models and numerical calculations of fluid flow through ‘crystalline’ rocks and fractured media.

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Professor Emeritus on petrology, mineralogy, and earth materials and tectonics