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OPENING HISTORIES OF FRACTURES

 

Conceptual Model of Lateral Growth

2006

Simplified conceptual model of one aspect of the full fracture diagenesis model of Lander/Bonnell Model. Simplification is to facilitate understanding and interpretation of La Boca Fm sandstone lateral growth microstructure observations.


References

 

On diagenetic models

 

Lander, R.H., Gale, J.F.W., Laubach, S.E., and Bonnell, L.M., 2002. Interaction between quartz cementation and fracturing in sandstone.  AAPG Annual Convention Program 11, A98.

 

On La Boca field area

 

Laubach, S. E. and Ward, M. W., 2006, Diagenesis in porosity evolution of opening-mode fractures, Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic La Boca Formation, NE Mexico. Tectonophysics 419, 75-97. [pdf]

 

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Geology Foundation of the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences.