1985
DOI: 10.3133/ofr85744
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Fracture history of the Plateau Creek and adjacent Colorado River valleys, southern Piceance Basin: Implications for predicting joint patterns at depth

Abstract: Preliminary work on the fracture history of the southern Piceance Basin, near its western rim in the valleys of Plateau Creek and the Colorado River, suggests that five episodes of jointing occurred in Upper Cretaceous through Eocene strata. Both the relative age and style of each joint set are similar to those documented for correlative sets in Paleocene to Eocene strata farther north in the drainage areas of Piceance and Yellow Creeks (Verbeek and Grout, 1983a). Joint sets produced during each of the five ep… Show more

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“…Joint sets are developed predominantly by Mode I extensional Cruikshank and others (1991) and Cruikshank and Aydin (1995) Grout (1984a, 1984b) and Grout and Verbeek (1985) mapped joints in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado with respect to the U.S. Department of Energy MWX (Multiwell Experiment) study. They investigated the feasibility of predicting joint orientations at depth in the MWX study by extrapolation of joint measurements from surface outcrop.…”
Section: Transpressive Structuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Joint sets are developed predominantly by Mode I extensional Cruikshank and others (1991) and Cruikshank and Aydin (1995) Grout (1984a, 1984b) and Grout and Verbeek (1985) mapped joints in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado with respect to the U.S. Department of Energy MWX (Multiwell Experiment) study. They investigated the feasibility of predicting joint orientations at depth in the MWX study by extrapolation of joint measurements from surface outcrop.…”
Section: Transpressive Structuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Five episodes of fracturing were documented for the Piceance system, only three of which were developed on a regional scale (Verbeek and Grout, 1984b). Grout and Verbeek (1985) suggested that variability among and between the joint systems could be explained by the hypothesis that beds of different mechanical properties and in different locations fractured at different times. Verbeek and Grout (1984b) suggested that variability in timing of fracturing had been related to a variable history of fluid pressure depending on dewatering, diagenesis, and hydrocarbon generation.…”
Section: Transpressive Structuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A younger bed perpendicular set within the Hogback system cross-cuts the older Hogback fractures with strikes ranging between N N W and NE. Grout and Verbeek (1985) interpret these as being regional and pre-Hogback and White River Uplift in age. Garrett and Lorenz (1989) however interpret these crosscutting fractures as being associated with later folding and uplift of the Grand Hogback and stress relaxation of the strata during erosion and exposure.…”
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“…At DeBeque Canyon Verbeek and Grout (1984a and b) and Grout and Verbeek (1985) identified two almost orthogonal fracture sets: an older set striking northeast consisting of long nearly planar, calite fitted fractures and a younger set striking northwest consisting of irregular, shorter, less mineralized fractures. Verbeek and Grout (1984a and b) suggest they are not correlative to the Hogback system, but may correlate to the younger Piceance system.…”
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