| rowspan = 5 | Intersecting || rowspan = 5 | Tectonic fracture trap; Fractures were generated by crustal tectonic stresses, whether compressional, extensional, or transpressional. || rowspan = 2 | Fold-related fracture trap; Fractures are intimately associated with and controlled by tectonic folds. || Related to zone of maximum curvature.
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| Hydrofractures
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| rowspan = 2 | Fault-related fracture traps; Fractures are intimately associated with or controlled by tectonic faults. || Fractures related to normal faults
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| Fractures related to wrench faults
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| colspan = 2 | Regional fracture trap; Fractures occur over a broad area unrelated to specific folds or faults and in which fractures are thought to have been created by regional tectonic stresses.