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Fractured Carbonates Field Trip 2002
Leonel Gomez, Alberto Ortiz and a party of scientists from Ecopetrol recently examined fracture patterns in the field area of northeast Mexico.

  Leonel Gomez

The image shows the field party in northeastern Mexico. 11/06/02

  

 

A typical outcrop

Linked fractures

Preparing to measure a scanline

Pavement with fracture traces

A ChevronTexaco field party

Leonel Gomez, Graduate Research Assistant in the Bureau's Fracture Research and Application Consortium and doctoral aspirant in the Department of Geological Sciences.