Understanding the impact of fault zones on reservoir trap properties is a major challenge for variety geological resources applications. Fault in cohesive rocks are complex structures, composed 3 components: rock matrix, damage zone fractures and core rock. Despite diversity methods to estimate permeability/drain properties, up date none them integrate simultaneously all three components, nor t...

Triaxial experiments show that samples of fault gouge deform distinctly differently than those from the adjacent fault damage zone (e.g., Chester and Logan, 1986). Rock samples in the damage zone follow a characteristic elastic-brittle behavior, whereas fault gouge readily compacts and deforms in a more ductile manner. In order to explain the apparent weakness of large plate bounding faults suc...

Kharaka has been a research hydrogeochemist with the U.S. Geological Survey since 1975. His investigations have emphasized waterrock interactions in petroliferous sedimentary basins. Current research covers the fields of water-rock-gas interactions, CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers, contamination from agricultural drainage and petroleum-produced water, and fluid-fault interactions. Kharaka ...

This study evaluates the in-situ stress field and the potential risk of fault reactivation and seal breach in the Mutineer and Exeter fields, Australian North West Shelf. Stress determinations are undertaken using pumping pressure test, rock mechanical, and log data from twelve wells. Subsequent geomechanical modelling uses the stress data to assess pore pressure changes that may induce slip on...

Given shale's potential to serve as both a caprock for geological carbon sequestration and the host nuclear waste disposal, this study focuses on structural characterization around 1.5–3 m thick fault within Opalinus Clay rock petrophysical of core. Seven boreholes were drilled at Mont Terri Rock laboratory in late 2018 constrain orientation so-called ‘Main Fault’ several fracture families core...

Introduction: The observed morphologies of impact basins can only be explained by invoking dramatic weakening of the crater walls and floor during crater collapse, but the mechanism underlying the drop in strength is unknown. Here, we explore the possibility that strain-weakening along faults is the primary mechanism. We present a model of temperatureand pressure-dependant strain-weakening alon...

an important concern in rock mechanics is non-homogeneity as joints or fault. this noticeable feature of failures in rock is appearance of slip surfaces or shear bands, the characteristics of that are associated with deformation being concentrated in a narrow zones and the surrounding material remaining intact. adopting the joints as fractures, fractures are well known for their effects on the ...

[1] We examine the work energy budget of actively deforming fault systems in order to develop a means of examining the systemic behavior of complex fault networks. Work done in the deformation of a faulted area consists of five components: (1) work done against gravity in uplift of topography (Wgrav); (2) internal energy of the strained host rock (Wint); (3) work done resisting friction during ...

The damaged rock around mature faults forms a zone of low seismic wave 24 velocities, which can perturb important earthquake rupture properties. In particular, waves 25 reflected within the fault zone structure can induce short-duration slip pulses, an apparently 26 predominant earthquake rupture mode. Another known mechanism to generate slip pulses is 27 strong velocity-weakening friction. Her...