The initiation, propagation, and arrest of joints and other fractures /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cosgrove, J. W. (John W.), Engelder, T. (Terry)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Geological Society, [2004]
Series:Geological Society special publication ; no. 231.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Opening histories of fractures in sandstone / S.E. Laubach ... [et al.]
  • Growth of ductile opening-mode fractures in geomaterials / P. Eichhubl
  • Age and depth evidence for pre-exhumation joints in granite plutons / P. Bankwitz ... [et al.]
  • Feedback between joint-zone development and downward erosion of regularly spaced canyons in the Navajo sandstone, Zion National Park, Utah / C.M. Rogers & T. Engelder
  • Predicting fracture swarms, the influence of subcritical crack growth and the cracktip process zone on joint spacing in rock / J. E. Olson
  • Fracture-pattern variations around a major fold and their implications regarding fracture prediction using limited data / M. Belayneh & J.W. Cosgrove
  • Index of hackle raggedness on joint fringes / D. Bahat, P. Bankwitz & E. Bankwitz
  • Arrest and aperture variation of hydrofractures in layered reservoirs / S.L. Brenner & A. Gudmundsson
  • Preferential jointing of Upper Devonian black shale, Appalachian Plateau, USA / G. Lash, S. Loewy and T. Engelder
  • Using differential geometry to characterize and analyse the morphology of plants / D. D. Pollard, S. Bergbauer & I. Mynatt
  • Relationship of tilt and twist of fringe cracks in granite plutons / P. Bankwitz, E. Bankwitz
  • Differences between veins and joints using the example of the Jurassic limestones of Somerset / D.C.P. Peacock
  • Fracture development within a straovolcano / M. NemĨok ... [et al.] 2-- Palaeostress orientation inferred from surface morphology of joints on the souern margin of the Bristol Channel Basin, UK / M. Belayner
  • Eight distinct fault-joint geometric/genetic relationships in the Beer Sheva syncline, Israel / D. Bahat
  • Probabilistic-mechanistic simulation of bed-normal joint patterns / W. Hoffman, W.M. Dunne
  • Orientation distribution of single joint sets / T. Engelder & J. Delter
  • Stress-controlled localization of deformation and fluid flow in fractured rocks / D. J. Sanderson & X. Jhang
  • Indentation pits / T Engelder, K. Schulmann & O. Lexa.