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- Page 4 and 5: Abstract Low-porosity, low-permeabi
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- Page 14 and 15: likely present in subsurface sandst
- Page 16 and 17: hooking-tip interactions—using th
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- Page 22 and 23: Although the Aztec sandstone experi
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- Page 28 and 29: 3.3. Deformation The Aztec also has
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- Page 38 and 39: n = 20 M n = 20 P n = 22 B n = 20 R
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- Page 42 and 43: Eichhubl et al., 2004) did not lend
- Page 44 and 45: P (a) (c) S P S Figure 1.10. Stereo
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- Page 50 and 51: 9. Acknowledgements My sincere than
- Page 52 and 53: The term compaction band (CB) was c
- Page 54 and 55: Pollard, 2002). The particular util
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- Page 60 and 61: Compaction band fin Depositional be
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- Page 64 and 65: Porosity Porosity 0.3 0.25 0.2 0.15
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concentration of quartz plasticity
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conducted on well-cemented sandston
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~ 62 m compaction band trend 500µm
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Sternlof et al. (2005) have suggest
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2005). It consists of a long (infin
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⎡ ∆ ⎤ ⎧ p 1 ∆ ⎛ M ⎞
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which point the inelastic strain ha
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they can exert significant effects
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interact is inversely proportional
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(a) (b) (c) (d) Figure 4.3. Typical
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Viewed individually, CB traces tend
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(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) Figure 4.7.
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1973; Mardon, 1988; Peck et al., 19
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undamaged host rock. That CBs canno
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0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2
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Normalized stress magnitude 3 2.5 2
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helps to explain why the oblique ap
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and ts = G·ds + H·dn (2) where tn
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plastic compaction, as suggested by
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To determine the sensitivity of pro
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segments will self-correct to provi
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6.3. Approaching tip interactions A
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0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 −0.05 −0.1
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0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 −0.05 −0.1
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the hooking patterns commonly obser
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(a) (b) (c) σ1 compaction band max
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σ 3 σ 2 σ 1 Figure 4.24. Schemat
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NV UT CA AZ Park Road Map Detail Pa
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compaction band Figure 5.2. Typical
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3. Computational method The methodo
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compaction band A 5 mm A‘ compact
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4. Application to the Aztec sandsto
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Permeability (mD) 10 4 10 3 10 2 10
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B‘ A‘ A c f m c m c f c f c f c
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equivalent of the Aztec sandstone,
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effective permeability represents a
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NV UT CA AZ Park Road Map Detail Pa
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Commonly from ~1 mm to ~1.5 cm in t
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Although systematic arrays of DBs p
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to 2 m, with both sets in a cross-h
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y identical blocks all subject to t
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contiguous areas. This type of char
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(0,b) n 3 (0,0) f 2 n 2 n 1 (a,0) (
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6.1. Parallel Effective permeabilit
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By contrast, band-parallel effectiv
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Relative Effective Permeability 1.0
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(a) (b) (c) 0 meters 3 = 10-2 kb /k
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Though grossly systematic, anastomo
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100 meters 5 meters NV UT CA AZ Par
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compaction band trend 500µm Figure
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Cover Outcrop Band N 100 meters 20
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(CBs) and the matrix rock in all si
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The finite volume discretization fo
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isotropic) can lead to numerical di
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5. Simulations Three sets of 2-D si
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Normalized ∆P ∆P ratio (n/p) 4.
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P P P P I I P P Case 1 P P Case 2 I
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Case 1 Case 1 Case 1 (a) (b) (c) In
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5.2.2. Discussion The elliptical pa
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5.3.1. Results With the regional gr
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(a) (b) Leak 200 meters Regional gr
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anticipated sustainable pumping rat
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Finally, there is the issue of fore
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200
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Bakke, S., and Øren, P. E., 1997,
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Carpenter, D. G., and Carpenter, J.
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Eichhubl, P., Taylor, W. L., Pollar
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Karimi-Fard, M., Durlofsky, L. J.,
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-, 1987, Fracture from a straight c
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Shipton, Z. K., and Cowie, P. A., 2
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Wong, T. F., David, C., and Zhu, W.