Effects of overpressure variations on fracture apertures and fluid transport

Tectonophysics

Volumn 581, Issue , 2012, Pages 220-230

  Gudmundsson, Agust ^a   Kusumoto, Shigekazu ^b   Simmenes, Trine H ^c   Philipp, Sonja L ^d   Larsen, Belinda ^c   Lotveit, Ingrid F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e TECTONOR AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crustal fluids; Crustal stresses; Fractures and faults; Hydrogeology; Petroleum geology; Volcanology

Indexed keywords

COSINE-SERIES; CRUSTAL STRESS; CUBIC LAWS; EXTERNAL DRIVING; FIELD DATA; FLUID TRANSPORT; FOURIER; FRACTURE APERTURES; HYDROFRACTURES; INTERNAL FLUID; LARGE APERTURE; LAVA FLOWS; NORMAL FAULTS; OVERPRESSURE; ROCK FRACTURES; SINGLE LAYER; TENSION FRACTURES; VOLCANOLOGY; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

FLOW RATE; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MINERALS; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE APERTURE; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERPRESSURE; PETROLEUM; PRESSURE FIELD; STIFFNESS; VOLCANOLOGY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84870463049     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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