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OPENING HISTORIES OF FRACTURES

 

Fracture Reconstructions

2004

 

Reconstructed opening history of fracture in sandstone.

Cretaceous Frontier Formation

Wyoming

  Sample depth 6242 m
Final aperture 200 microns     
Synkinematic cement: quartz  

Reference

Laubach, S., Lander, R., Bonnell, L., Olson, J., and Reed, R., 2004, Opening histories of fractures in sandstone: in Cosgrove, J.W., and Engelder, T., editors, The initiation, propagation, and arrest of joints and other fractures, Geological Society of London Special Publication 231, 1-9. pdf

 
 

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