Factors controlling permeability of cataclastic deformation bands and faults in porous sandstone reservoirs

G Ballas, H Fossen, R Soliva - Journal of Structural Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Improving the prediction of sub-seismic structures and their petrophysical properties is
essential for realistic characterization of deformed sandstone reservoirs. In the present …

A kinematic unifying theory of microstructures in subglacial tills

J Menzies, JJM van Der Meer, E Ravier - Sedimentary Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
A key aspect of all subglacial tills is the nature and form of microstructures present.
Microstructures are symptomatic of repeated deformation phases prior to, during, and after …

Assessing continuum plasticity postulates with grain stress and local strain measurements in triaxially compressed sand

RC Hurley, G Shahin, BS Kuwik… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Critical state and continuum plasticity theories have been used in research and engineering
practice in soil and rock mechanics for decades. These theories rely on postulated …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of grain size and porosity on the nature of compaction localisation in high-porosity sandstone

E Rice-Birchall, DR Faulkner, JD Bedford - Journal of Structural Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Compaction bands are a type of deformation band with negligible shear in porous rocks
such as sandstones and are important because they can impede subsurface fluid flow …

[HTML][HTML] Subglacial sediment deformation in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

DE Robinson, J Menzies, JS Wellner… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Ross Sea embayment is the outlet for one-third of all Antarctic ice flow, receiving input
from both East and West Antarctica. Marine-based ice streams, whose stability is susceptible …

Strain localization in sandstone and its implications for CO2 storage

A Torabi, RH Gabrielsen, H Fossen, P Ringrose… - first break, 2015 - earthdoc.org
Geological storage of CO2 is a key technical solution to the climate-energy challenge, but it
has a number of technological constraints (Baines and Worden 2004; Halland et al., 2011) …

Deformation 'boundary front'movements in subglacial tills—A microsedimentological perspective from till sequences near Pine Point, NWT, Canada

J Menzies, RC Paulen, JM Rice… - The Depositional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Investigations of glacial sediment exposures in a former open pit in the Pine Point Mining
District, Northwest Territories, reveal evidence of changes in stress magnitude as exhibited …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative analyses of deformation band occurrence and host rock properties in pyroclastic rocks of eastern Taiwan

CC Chung, CT Chen, CY Lu - Journal of Structural Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
We analyze deformation bands found in a pyroclastics locality at the Shitiping outcrop in
eastern Taiwan, allowing close inspection of their features and evolution. To quantify their …

Fault core process and clay content derived from XRF analysis: Salina Creek Fault, Utah

AA Brown, RK Davies, AC Treverton - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The distribution of fault rocks interpreted across a modelled fault in oil or gas reservoirs is
most often described by its clay content derived from standard industry algorithms such as …

An experimental study of porosity collapse and deformation band formation in high-porosity sandstones

E Rice-Birchall - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Compaction bands are millimetre to several centimetre thick sub-seismic bands of localised
deformation in sandstones, which form approximately perpendicular to the maximum …