The where and how of faults, fluids and permeability - insights from fault stepovers, scaling properties and gold mineralisation

Geofluids

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 240-251

  Micklethwaite, S ^a   Ford, A ^a   Witt, W ^a   Sheldon, H A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fluid flow; Gold; Permeability; Scaling; Static stress change; Stepovers; Time integrated fluid flux

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COULOMB CRITERION; FAULT; FLUID FLOW; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PERMEABILITY; STRESS CHANGE;

AUSTRALIA; KALGOORLIE; ORA BANDA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ORA;

EID: 84923210582     PISSN: 14688115     EISSN: 14688123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gfl.12102     Document Type: Article

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