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| − | + | Noun: approximately planar surface along which originally contiguous rocks have broken and separated and along which the relative displacement of originally adjacent points across the fracture is small compared with fracture length.<ref name=ch02r10>Pollard, D., D., Segall, P., 1987, Theoretical displacements add stresses near fractures with applications to fault, joints, veins, dikes, and solution surfaces, in Atkinson, B. K., ed., Fracture Mechanics of Rock: London, Academic Press, p. 277–349.</ref><ref>Vincelette, R. R., E. A. Beaumont, and N. H. Foster, 1999, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/beaumont/ch02/ch02.htm Classification of exploration traps] in E. A. Beaumont and N. H. Foster, eds., Handbook of Petroleum Geology: Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps, [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=545 AAPG Treatise #3], p. 225</ref> | |
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Latest revision as of 20:39, 10 February 2015
Noun: approximately planar surface along which originally contiguous rocks have broken and separated and along which the relative displacement of originally adjacent points across the fracture is small compared with fracture length.[1][2]
Verb: the process of brittle breakage.
References
- ↑ Pollard, D., D., Segall, P., 1987, Theoretical displacements add stresses near fractures with applications to fault, joints, veins, dikes, and solution surfaces, in Atkinson, B. K., ed., Fracture Mechanics of Rock: London, Academic Press, p. 277–349.
- ↑ Vincelette, R. R., E. A. Beaumont, and N. H. Foster, 1999, Classification of exploration traps in E. A. Beaumont and N. H. Foster, eds., Handbook of Petroleum Geology: Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps, AAPG Treatise #3, p. 225
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