Fluid pressure cycles, variations in permeability, and weakening mechanisms along low-angle normal faults: The tellaro detachment, Italy

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 1689-1710

  Clemenzi, Luca ^a   Storti, Fabrizio ^a   Balsamo, Fabrizio ^a   Molli, Giancarlo ^a,b   Ellam, Rob ^c   Muchez, Philippe ^d   Swennen, Rudy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; FAULT SLIPS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT REACTIVATION; FLUID INCLUSION DATA; MULTIPLE FRACTURING; NORTHERN APENNINES; PEAK TEMPERATURES; PERMEABILITY ENHANCEMENT;

FAULTING;

DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; FAULT PLANE; FLUID PRESSURE; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PERMEABILITY; THINNING; TRIASSIC;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84949034305     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B31203.1     Document Type: Article

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