Volume-based curvature computations illuminate fracture orientations - Early to mid-Paleozoic, Central Basin Platform, west Texas

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Blumentritt, Charles H ^a   Marfurt, Kurt J ^a   Sullivan, E Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Faulting; Fracture; Geophysical techniques

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FRACTURE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; SOIL SURVEYS;

CURVATURE ANALYSIS; FAULTING; FRACTURE ORIENTATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

CURVATURE; FAULTING; FRACTURE; PALEOZOIC;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748874264     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2335581     Document Type: Article

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