Collateral damage: Evolution with displacement of fracture distribution and secondary fault strands in fault damage zones

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research Vol. 116; no. B3
• Main Authors: Savage, Heather M., Brodsky, Emily E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2011
• Subjects: Decay; fault damage zone; fault zone evolution; fracture density decay; Geology; Geophysics; secondary fault strand; Stochastic models

We investigate the development of fracture distributions as a function of displacement to determine whether damage around small and large faults is governed by the same process. Based on our own field work combined with data from the literature, we find that (1) isolated single faults with small dis...