Insights into rates of fracture growth and sealing from a model for quartz cementation in fractured sandstones

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 516-538

  Lander, R H ^a   Laubach, S E ^b  

^a Geocosm   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTING (SHAFTS); CEMENTS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOSITS; MORPHOLOGY; QUARTZ; QUARTZ DEPOSITS; SANDSTONE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TEXTURES;

BRIDGE STRUCTURES; C-AXIS ORIENTATIONS; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; EUHEDRAL CRYSTALS; FRACTURE SURFACES; FRACTURED SANDSTONES; QUARTZ CEMENTATION;

FRACTURE;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; CEMENTATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; QUARTZ; QUARTZ VEIN; SANDSTONE;

EID: 84924734609     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B31092.1     Document Type: Article

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