Schmatz, Joyce; Vrolijk, Peter; Urai, Janos L.; Giese, Steffen; Ziegler, Martin; Zee, Wouter van der (11. Symposium "Tektonik, Struktur- und Kristallingeologie", 2006-03)
This study focuses on clay smear processes
during fault gouge evolution in
sand-clay sequences at depths up to
2 km. A clay-rich fault gouge can dramatically
lower the fault’s permeability,
and prediction of this process ...