Hydraulic properties of fault zones in porous carbonates, examples from central and southern Italy

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 68-79

  Tondi, Emanuele ^a   Rustichelli, Andrea ^a   Cilona, Antonino ^b,c   Balsamo, Fabrizio ^d   Storti, Fabrizio ^d   Napoli, Giuseppe ^e   Agosta, Fabrizio ^f   Renda, Pietro ^e   Giorgioni, Maurizio ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^g E and P   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compactive shear banding; Favignana Island; Majella Mountain; Permeability; Sub seismic resolution faults

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CIRCULATION; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CRETACEOUS; FAULT; GRAINSTONE; HOST ROCK; MAGNITUDE; PERMEABILITY; PLEISTOCENE; POROSITY; RESERVOIR;

ABRUZZI; AEGADIAN ISLANDS; FAVIGNANA; ITALY; SICILY; TRAPANI;

EID: 84994029418     PISSN: 20381719     EISSN: 20381727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2015.08     Document Type: Article

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