Fracture
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| Series | Treatise in Petroleum Geology |
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| Part | Traps, trap types, and the petroleum system |
| Chapter | Classification of exploration traps |
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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]
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.