Fault Mechanics and Transport Properties of Rocks (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Fault Mechanics and Transport Properties of Rocks 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Contributors 8
Introduction: William F. Brace 12
The Brace Symposium and this Volume 16
Bibliography: William F. Brace 20
Acknowledgments 25
Part 1: Brittle Failure of Rocks 26
Chapter 1. Observations of Quasistatic Fault Growth from Acoustic Emissions 28
Chapter 2. Fabrics of Experimental Fault Zones: Their Development and Relationship to Mechanical Behavior 58
Chapter 3. Frictional Strength and the Effective Pressure Law of Montmorillonite and Illite Clays 94
Chapter 4. The Brittle–Ductile Transition in Feldspar Aggregates: An Experimental Study 114
Chapter 5. Stabilization of Faulting by Cumulative Slip 144
Part 2: Permeability and Fluid Flow in Rocks 170
Chapter 6. On the Measurement of Permeability in Anisotropic Rocks 172
Chapter 7. Permeability and Relative Permeability in Rocks 194
Chapter 8. The Determination of Permeability and Storage Capacity: Pore Pressure Oscillation Method 212
Chapter 9. Measurement of Permeability and Storage Capacity in Rocks During Deformation at High Temperature and Pressure 238
Chapter 10. Growth of Grain Contacts in Halite by Solution-transfer: Implications for Diagenesis, Lithification, and Strength Recovery 278
Chapter 11. The Influence of H2O and CO2 on Melt Migration in Two Silicate Liquid–Olivine Systems 306
Part 3: Fracture Characterization and Physical Properties of Rock 320
Chapter 12. Fluid-driven Cyclic Propagation of a Joint in the Ithaca Siltstone, Appalachian Basin, New York 322
Chapter 13. The Influence of Hydrostatic and Uniaxial Stress on Remanent Magnetization 350
Chapter 14. The Correlation Between Fracture-toughness Anisotropy and Crack-surface Morphology of Siltstones in the Ithaca Formation, Appalachian Basin 366
Chapter 15. CT Imaging of Electrical Resistivity Measurements: Nonuniform Water Saturation Can Be A Problem 396
Chapter 16. Fracture Detection and Characterization from Hydrophone Vertical Seismic Profiling Data 414
Part 4: Implications of Rock Mechanics on Crustal Tectonics 440
Chapter 17. Role of Elastic Stiffness and Fault Damping During Thrust-sheet Emplacement in a Foreland Belt 442
Chapter 18. Brace–Goetze Strength Profiles, the Partitioning of Strike-slip and Thrust Faulting at Zones of Oblique Convergence, and the Stress–Heat Flow Paradox of the San Andreas Fault 460
Chapter 19. Hydraulic Pulses in the Earth's Crust 486
Chapter 20. Fault Stress States, Pore Pressure Distributions, and The Weakness of the San Andreas Fault 500
Chapter 21. Paradigms or Small Changes in Earthquake Mechanics 530
Index 544
International Geophysics Series 547