Various photos taken from project sites. Click on thumbnail
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| Studying Fractures --> |
Leads to enlightenment
and happiness... |
Hierarchy |
Fracturing in Faults |
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| Sand Hill Fault, New Mexico |
Flow structures in hanging
wall? |
Lewis Thrust, MT from
US 2 |
Planarity |
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| Collection of Scanline
Data |
How a geologist views
a fractured reservior |
Posing opportunities for
geologists |
More Posing opportunities
for geologists |
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| Posing opportunities for
geologists |
Tracemaps include: Sketches
of cliff faces; Surficial mapping; 2D and 3D Seismic
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Cross section view |
Large fractures in sandstone
continue across dolomite as numerous thin confined fractures |
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Hmmmm....
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Sand Hill Fault, New Mexico |
Cooling:
Irregular / non-systematic |
Lewis Thrust |
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Rainbow Bridge,
Death Valley, CA |
Core Analysis |
Single fractures can be
highly conductive, while most of the other fractures
appear to play little, if any, role in the hydrocarbon
plumbing |
Fractures are not Parallel
Plates |
