Displacement and stress fields around rock fractures opened by irregular overpressure variations

Many rock fractures are entirely driven open by fluids such as ground water, geothermal water, gas, oil, and magma. These are a subset of extension fractures (mode I cracks; e.g., dikes, mineral veins and joints) referred to as hydrofractures. Field measurements show that many hydrofractures have gr...

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Main Authors: Shigekazu eKusumoto, Agust eGudmundsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/feart.2014.00007/full