Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-301-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-301-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Multi-disciplinary characterizations of the BedrettoLab – a new underground geoscience research facility
Xiaodong Ma
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Marian Hertrich
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Florian Amann
Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen, 52062 Aachen,
Germany
Kai Bröker
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Nima Gholizadeh Doonechaly
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Valentin Gischig
CSD Ingenieure AG, 3097 Liebefeld, Switzerland
Rebecca Hochreutener
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Philipp Kästli
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Hannes Krietsch
Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen, 52062 Aachen,
Germany
Michèle Marti
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Barbara Nägeli
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Morteza Nejati
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Anne Obermann
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Katrin Plenkers
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Antonio P. Rinaldi
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Alexis Shakas
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Linus Villiger
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Quinn Wenning
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Alba Zappone
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Falko Bethmann
Geo-Energie Suisse AG, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland
Raymi Castilla
Geo-Energie Suisse AG, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland
Francisco Seberto
Geo-Energie Suisse AG, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland
Peter Meier
Geo-Energie Suisse AG, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland
Thomas Driesner
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Simon Loew
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Hansruedi Maurer
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Martin O. Saar
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Stefan Wiemer
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Domenico Giardini
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich,
Switzerland
Data sets
Data Collection for the Bedretto Reservoir Project (BRP) BedrettoLab Team https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000527856
Short summary
Questions on issues such as anthropogenic earthquakes and deep geothermal energy developments require a better understanding of the fractured rock. Experiments conducted at reduced scales but with higher-resolution observations can shed some light. To this end, the BedrettoLab was recently established in an existing tunnel in Ticino, Switzerland, with preliminary efforts to characterize realistic rock mass behavior at the hectometer scale.
Questions on issues such as anthropogenic earthquakes and deep geothermal energy developments...