Geomechanical modeling of stress and strain evolution during contractional fault-related folding

Tectonophysics

Volumn 576-577, Issue , 2012, Pages 171-196

  Smart, Kevin J ^a   Ferrill, David A ^a   Morris, Alan P ^a   McGinnis, Ronald N ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault; Fold; Fracture; Geomechanics; Strain; Stress

Indexed keywords

APPLIED LOADS; BEDDING PLANES; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; DEFORMATION FEATURE; DEFORMATION HISTORY; ELASTIC-PLASTIC BEHAVIOR; FAULT; FAULT PREDICTION; FAULT-RELATED FOLD; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FOLD; FOLD STRUCTURES; FORWARD MODELS; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; GEOMECHANICAL MODELING; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; LINEAR ELASTIC MODEL; MECHANICAL STRATIGRAPHY; MODEL DOMAINS; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; PERMANENT DEFORMATIONS; PERMANENT STRAIN; PORE COLLAPSE; ROCK MASS DEFORMATION; STRESS AND STRAIN; STRESS STATE; SUBSURFACE DISPOSAL;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; GEOMECHANICS; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; STRAIN; STRATIGRAPHY;

STRESSES;

DEFORMATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOLDING; FRACTURE; GEOMECHANICS; MODELING; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84867899103     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.05.024     Document Type: Article

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