abstract: The dynamic Earth involves feedbacks between the solid crust and both natural and anthropogenic fluid flows. Fluid-rock interactions drive many Earth phenomena, including volcanic unrest, seismic activities, and hydrological responses. Mitigating the hazards associated with these activities requires fundamental understanding of the underlying physical processes. Therefore, geophysical monitoring in combination with modeling provides valuable tools, suitable for hazard mitigation and risk management efforts. Magmatic activities and induced seismicity linked to fluid injection are two natural and anthropogenic processes discussed in this dissertation. Successful forecasting of the timing, style, and intensity of a volcanic eruption is made possible by improved understanding of the volcano life cycle as well as building quantitative models incorporating the processes that govern rock melting, melt ascending, magma storage, eruption initiation, and interaction between magma and surrounding host rocks at different spatial extent and time scale. One key part of such models is the shallow magma chamber, which is generally directly linked to volcano’s eruptive behaviors. However, its actual shape, size, and temporal evolution are often not entirely known. To address this issue, I use space-based geodetic data with high spatiotemporal resolution to measure surface deformation at Kilauea volcano. The obtained maps of InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) deformation time series are exploited with two novel modeling schemes to investigate Kilauea’s shallow magmatic system. Both models can explain the same observation, leading to a new compartment model of magma chamber. Such models significantly advance the understanding of the physical processes associated with Kilauea’s summit plumbing system with potential applications for volcanoes around the world. The unprecedented increase in the number of earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States since 2008 is attributed to massive deep subsurface injection of saltwater. The elevated chance of moderate-large damaging earthquakes stemming from increased seismicity rate causes broad societal concerns among industry, regulators, and the public. Thus, quantifying the time-dependent seismic hazard associated with the fluid injection is of great importance. To this end, I investigate the large-scale seismic, hydrogeologic, and injection data in northern Texas for period of 2007-2015 and in northern-central Oklahoma for period of 1995-2017. An effective induced earthquake forecasting model is developed, considering a complex relationship between injection operations and consequent seismicity. I find that the timing and magnitude of regional induced earthquakes are fully controlled by the process of fluid diffusion in a poroelastic medium and thus can be successfully forecasted. The obtained time-dependent seismic hazard model is spatiotemporally heterogeneous and decreasing injection rates does not immediately reduce the probability of an earthquake. The presented framework can be used for operational induced earthquake forecasting. Information about the associated fundamental processes, inducing conditions, and probabilistic seismic hazards has broad benefits to the society. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Geological Sciences 2018

Les plus anciens gisements d’uranium connus sur Terre sont les gisements de type paléo-placer hôtes de conglomérats à cailloux de quartz d’âge compris entre 3,09 et 2,2 Ga. Ces gisements représentent les reliques de l’ancienne croûte continentale archéenne maintenant érodée. L’origine de leurs concentrations primaires, correspondant à des accumulations de grains détritiques d’uraninite, est toujours sujette à controverse et la nature et les processus de formation des roches sources archéennes demeurent incertains.Ce travail présente l’analyse minéralogique et géochimique détaillée des minéralisations de différents paléo-placers (Witwatersrand en Afrique du Sud, Elliot Lake au Canada et séries Jatuliennes en Russie) ainsi que de granitoïdes archéens et paléoprotérozoïques enrichis en uranium (séries granitiques calco-alcalines à potassiques du craton de Kénéma Man en Guinée, granites tardi-orogéniques du craton de Pilbara en Australie Occidentale, pegmatite peralumineuse de Tanco du Bouclier Canadien et pegmatites à uraninite du Bouclier Baltique en Finlande et Russie). L’étude comparative de ces roches uranifères échantillonnées tout autour du globe prouve à la fois i) l’existence précoce (>3,1 Ga) de granitoïdes différenciés produits par la fusion partielle d’une croûte pré-enrichie tels que des granites peralumineux ou de type S, ii) nécessairement la présence d’un mécanisme permettant de produire ce type de granites comme les zones de subduction ou de collision générées par le mouvement des plaques tectoniques, iii) l’origine magmatique des uraninites thorifères des paléo-placers, iv) la présence d’une atmosphère réductrice avant 2,2 Ga permettant la préservation des uraninites durant leur transport, v) et finalement l’augmentation de l’oxygène libre dans l’atmosphère paléo-protérozoïque à partir de 2,2 Ga provoquant la disparition des paléo-placers uranifères en faveur de l’altération et de l’oxydation des concentrations préexistantes, de la remobilisation de l’uranium et de la formation de dépôts secondaires / The oldest known uranium deposits on the Earth are the paleoplacer-type deposits hosted in quartz-pebble conglomerates from 3.09 to 2.2 Ga in age. These deposits are representative of the ancient Archean continental crust now eroded. The origin of the primary ores corresponding to accumulation of detrital uraninite is still controversy and the nature and forming processes of the Archean source rocks remain uncertain.This work provides the detail mineralogical and geochemical analysis of mineralization from different paleoplacer-type deposits (Witwatersrand in South Africa, Elliot Lake in Canada and the Jatulian series in Russia) and from Archean and Paleoproterozoic U-enriched granitoids (calco-alkaline to potassic granite series from the Kenema Man Craton in Guinea, late-orogenic granites from the Pilbara Craton in West Australia, the Tanco pegmatite from the Canadian Shield and uraninite bearing pegmatites from the Baltic Shield in Finland and Russia). The comparative study of these worldwide uraniferous rocks prove either i) the existence of highly differentiated granitoids produced by the partial melting of a pre-enriched crust as peraluminous and S-type granites in early time (>3.1 Ga), ii) obviously the presence of an effective mechanism to produce such granites as tectonic plate systems with subduction or collisional zones, iii) the magmatic origin of the thorian uraninites in paleoplacers, iv) the efficiency of a reductive atmosphere prior to 2.2 Ga permitting the preservation of uraninite during transportation, v) and finally the rise of the oxygen-free level in the paleoproterozoic atmosphere providing the disappearance of uraniferous paleoplacers in favour of weathering, oxidation of pre-existing concentrations, remobilization of uranium and formation of secondary deposits