The effects of rock heterogeneity on compaction localization in porous carbonates

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 67, Issue PA, 2014, Pages 75-93

  Cilona, Antonino ^a   Faulkner, Daniel Roy ^b   Tondi, Emanuele ^c   Agosta, Fabrizio ^d   Mancini, Lucia ^e   Rustichelli, Andrea ^c   Baud, Patrick ^f   Vinciguerra, Sergio ^g  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^e SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete compaction bands; Grain sorting; Mechanical twinning; Porosity reduction; Triaxial compaction experiments

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CRUSHING; DEFORMATION; PORE SIZE; ROCK PRESSURE; ROCKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN HARDENING; TEXTURES;

BED-PARALLEL COMPACTION BANDS; COMPACTION BANDS; COMPACTION EXPERIMENTS; INTERGRANULAR PRESSURE SOLUTIONS; MECHANICAL TWINNING; OLIGOCENE-MIOCENE CARBONATES; POROSITY REDUCTION; X-RAY COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY; ROCK HETEROGENEITY;

COMPACTION;

CARBONATE ROCK; COMPACTION; CONFINING PRESSURE; DEFORMATION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; HETEROGENEITY; LITHOFACIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; ROCK MECHANICS; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TWINNING; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; STRAIN;

ABRUZZI; APENNINES; ITALY; MAJELLA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84905674534     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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