Published by means of the yank Geophysical Union as a part of the Geophysical Monograph sequence, quantity 113.
This quantity bargains a pattern of the variety of analysis on faults and fluid movement within the overdue Nineteen Nineties. It describes specific floor and subsurface characterization of fault-zone constitution and diagenesis with implications for hydrology and petroleum geology; the function of faults in geothermal structures; laboratory reports of rock mechanics, permeability, and geochemistry of faults and fault rocks; and mathematical modeling of fluid move via faulted and fractured rocks.
The so much impressive and attractive characteristic of the amount, in addition to the overall study subject of faults and subsurface fluid circulate, is its interdiscplinary nature. The authors are drawn from the fields of structural geology, engineering geology, geohydrology and hydrogeology, sedimentology, petroleum geology, geothermal geology, rock mechanics, and geochemistry. Likewise, the emphasis on faults instead of easy open fractures increases matters no longer addressed in a lot of the literature on stream via fractured rocks. even if faults are a kind of fracture and semantics can confuse the difficulty, faults are typically extra complex than the straightforward fractures which are the point of interest of so much paintings in fractured rock hydrology. such a lot particularly, faults may have very huge displacements (up to many kilometers) and increase advanced tectonic materials, gouge zones, and juxtaposition of rocks or sediments of other types.
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