Regional sand injectite architecture as a record of pore-pressure evolution and sand redistribution in the shallow crust: Insights from the Panoche Giant Injection Complex, California

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 889-904

  Vigorito, Mario ^a,b   Hurst, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL DEPTHS; CALIFORNIA; ISOBARIC SURFACES; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSTATIC PRESSURE; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; PRESSURE CONDITIONS; PRESSURE EVOLUTION; SAND INJECTION; SANDSTONE INTRUSIONS; SEAL FAILURE; SHALLOW CRUST; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; THEORETICAL BASIS;

FLUIDIZATION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SAND; STRATIGRAPHY;

DIRECT INJECTION;

CRUST; FLUID PRESSURE; FLUIDIZATION; OUTCROP; PORE PRESSURE; SAND; SANDSTONE; SILL;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956971046     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-004     Document Type: Article

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