Fracture compliance estimation using a combination of image and sonic logs

́e, Laurent Escar; Prioul, Romain; Montaggioni, Philippe; Jocker, Jeroen

doi:10.1190/1.3054813

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Field measurements of normal and shear fracture compliance

Hobday

Worthington

2011

Geophysical Prospecting

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Field estimates of the normal and shear compliance of water saturated fractures were obtained from a seismic experiment carried out on a wave‐cut platform of Upper Caithness Flagstone on the North coast of Scotland. The rocks are cut by two orthogonal sets of vertical fractures. Vertical geophones were glued to the rock surface and seismic waves were generated by striking the surface with a sledge hammer. First arrival traveltimes were obtained for source‐receiver distances up to 30 m. Differences of compressional velocity with direction across the platform were interpreted as resulting from the compliance of the fractures intersected by the transmitted waves. The average normal compliance for fractures at this site is 4.0 × 10−12± 1.0 × 10−12 m/Pa. There is much less certainty about the precise value of shear compliance. However, the normal/shear compliance ratio is determined to be ≤0.1.

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