Fault zone architecture and permeability structure

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1025-1028

  Caine, Jonathan Saul ^a   Evans, James P ^b   Forster, Craiq B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COREMAKING; HYDROGEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

DEFORMATION CONDITIONS; FAULT ZONE ARCHITECTURE; FLUID-FLOW PROPERTIES; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; INHERENT VARIABILITY; LABORATORY PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS; PERMEABILITY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; FIELD INVESTIGATION; HYDROGEOLOGIC UNIT;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FLUID FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; UPPER CRUST; HYDROGEOLOGY;

EID: 0030434396     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<1025:FZAAPS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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