Associating Different Curvatures with Fracture Distribution Characterization

C036 ASSOCIATING DIFFERENT CURVATURES WITH FRACTURE DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERIZATION. Abstract 1 Fracture distribution characterization in anticline structures is often problematic as several fracture orientation sets are generally involved. When the curvature is used in most of the cases only one type is used (mean Gaussian maximum …) giving often partial results on one of the fractures sets only. The aim of this paper is to show a case where the association of two curvatures (directional and Gaussian) helps to characterize the fracture distribution and the relative importance of the different fracture orientation sets. The ratio of the fracture intensity for different