The damage zone-fault core transition in carbonate rocks: implications for fault growth, structure and permeability

Billi, Andrea; Salvini, Francesco; Storti, Fabrizio

doi:10.1016/s0191-8141(03)00037-3

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“…within the fault zone for small-offset faults (<3 cm) due to the many joints and high-porosity breccia, but adjacent to the fault zone for large-offset faults (>10 m) due to a wide zone of low-porosity breccia which can form permeability barriers (Antonellini and Mollema, 2000). Similarly, growth of cataclastic fault cores from fractured damage zones in extensional and strike-slip fault zones show an evolution from high to low permeability (Billi et al, 2003;Micarelli et al, 2006). It has also been reported that opening-mode fracture porosity in dolostones is controlled by both the aperture size and post-kinematic cements (Gale et al, 2004).…”

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Linking process, dimension, texture, and geochemistry in dolomite geobodies: A case study from Wadi Mistal (northern Oman)

Vandeginste¹,

John²,

Flierdt³

et al. 2013

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Understanding the distribution and geometry of reservoir geobodies is crucial for netto-gross estimates and to model subsurface flow. This paper focuses on the process of dolomitization and resulting geometry of diagenetic geobodies in an outcrop of Jurassic host rocks from northern Oman. Field and petrographic data show that a first phase of stratabound dolomite is crosscut by a second phase of fault-related dolomite. The stratabound dolomite geobodies are laterally continuous for at least several hundreds of meters (~1000 ft) and probably regionally and are half a meter (1.6 ft) thick. Based on petrography and geochemistry, a process of seepage reflux of mesosaline or hypersaline fluids during the early stages of burial diagenesis is proposed for the formation of the stratabound dolomite. In contrast, the fault-related dolomite geobodies are trending along a fault that can be followed for at least 100 Running head:Linking process, dimension, texture and geochemistry in dolomite geobodies

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Linking process, dimension, texture, and geochemistry in dolomite geobodies: A case study from Wadi Mistal (northern Oman)

Vandeginste¹,

John²,

Flierdt³

et al. 2013

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“…Strike-slip fault zones display two main units: the fault core and the damage zone, which is typical of fault zones (Chester and Logan 1986;Caine et al 1996, Billi et al 2003Faulkner et al 2010). Detailed field mapping across the fault zones within the PermoMesozoic strata shows their variable width, from a few metres to several tens of metres, limited by the size of ANDRZEJ KONON ET AL.…”

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Mnin restraining stepover – evidence of significant Cretaceous–Cenozoic dextral strike-slip faulting along the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone?

Konon¹,

Ostrowski²,

Rybak-Ostrowska³

et al. 2016

Acta Geologica Polonica

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ABSTRACT:Konon, A., Ostrowski, S., Rybak-Ostrowska, B., Ludwiniak, M., Śmigielski, M., Wyglądała, M., Uroda, J., Kowalczyk, S., Mieszkowski, R. and Kłopotowska, A. 2016. Mnin restraining stepover -evidence of significant Cretaceous-Cenozoic dextral strike-slip faulting along the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone? Acta Geologica Polonica, 66 (3), 429-449. Warszawa.A newly recognized Mnin restraining stepover is identified in the Permo-Mesozoic cover of the western part of the Late Palaeozoic Holy Cross Mountains Fold Belt (Poland), within a fault pattern consisting of dextral strikeslip faults. The formation of a large contractional structure at the Late Cretaceous -Cenozoic transition displays the significant role of strike-slip faulting along the western border of the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone, in the foreland of the Polish part of the Carpathian Orogen. Theoretical relationships between the maximum fault offsets/mean step length, as well as between the maximum fault offsets/mean step width allowed the estimation of the values of possible offsets along the Snochowice and Mieczyn faults forming the Mnin stepover. The estimated values suggest displacements of as much as several tens of kilometres. The observed offset along the Tokarnia Fault and theoretical calculations suggest that the strike-slip faults west of the Late Palaeozoic Holy Cross Mountains Fold Belt belong to a large strike-slip fault system.We postulate that the observed significant refraction of the faults forming the anastomosing fault pattern is related also to the interaction of the NW-SE-striking faults formed along the western border of the TeisseyreTornquist Zone and the reactivated WNW-ESE-striking faults belonging to the fault systems of the northern margin of the Tethys Ocean.

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“…Caine et al, 1996), and is primarily controlled by the distribution of associated fault rocks, facture connectivity (Odling, 1992) and orientation distribution (Sleight, 2001) of fractures within the different fault zone domains (e.g. Billi et al, 2003).…”

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“…However, it has been also suggested that fracture density and connectivity vary in a more complex fashion across the damage zone of carbonate-hosted fault zones (e.g. Billi et al, 2003). In particular, Micarelli et al (2003Micarelli et al ( , 2006aMicarelli et al ( , 2006b recognised distinct weakly deformed (WDDZ) and intensely deformed (IDDZ) damage zone domains, based on the observed variations of fracture density in fault zones hosted in lowporosity carbonates.…”

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Fault and fracture patterns in low porosity chalk and their potential influence on sub-surface fluid flow—A case study from Flamborough Head, UK

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The damage zone-fault core transition in carbonate rocks: implications for fault growth, structure and permeability

Cited by 320 publications

References 47 publications

Linking process, dimension, texture, and geochemistry in dolomite geobodies: A case study from Wadi Mistal (northern Oman)

Linking process, dimension, texture, and geochemistry in dolomite geobodies: A case study from Wadi Mistal (northern Oman)

Mnin restraining stepover – evidence of significant Cretaceous–Cenozoic dextral strike-slip faulting along the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone?

Fault and fracture patterns in low porosity chalk and their potential influence on sub-surface fluid flow—A case study from Flamborough Head, UK

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