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f Fault Gouge Evolution in Highly Overconsolidated Mudrocks - A Field Study
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, First EAGE International Conference on Fault and Top Seals - What do we know and where do we go?, Sep 2003, cp-97-00038
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-32-0
Abstract
Faults in brittle lithologies can form highly conductive fluid pathways at small displacements. At increasing displacement the transport properties of the fault zone are more complex. In sandstones and carbonates cataclastic gouges are formed which remain rather permeable but may be re-cemented by diagenetic fluids.
