Fault development through fractured pelagic carbonates of the Cingoli anticline, Italy: Possible analog for subsurface fluid-conductive fractures

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 21-37

  Petracchini, Lorenzo ^a,b   Antonellini, Marco ^a   Billi, Andrea ^b   Scrocca, Davide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anticline; Fault; Fluid flow; Fracture; Pressure solution seam; Scaglia Rossa formation

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC SEA; ANTICLINE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FAULT; FAULT DEVELOPMENT; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MESSINIAN; MICRITES; NORTHERN APENNINES; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; PELAGIC CARBONATES; PO PLAIN; PRESSURE SOLUTION; SCAGLIA ROSSA FORMATION; STRUCTURAL DATA; SUBSURFACE FLUID FLOW; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THIN BED;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDROCARBONS; LIMESTONE;

FRACTURE;

ANTICLINE; CARBONATE; FAULT ZONE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FRACTURE; LIMESTONE; MESSINIAN; PERMEABILITY; THRUST FAULT;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84870393393     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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