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Underground Research Laboratories for conducting fault activation experiments in shales.

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Since a decade, observations and experiments conducted in underground environments worldwide (mines, underground research laboratories - URL) allowed to bridge the scale gap between laboratory scale and large scale faults. This is particularly important in the study of faults affecting clay formations which could not be observed at the Earth’s surface because of weathering processes. Here we show how examples from the Mont Terri (Switzerland) and Tournemire (France) URLs may help in (i) defining the concepts of fault architecture in shales, and (ii) estimating fault hydromechanical properties from decameter scale field experiments. Some key results are that critically stressed shale faults can be reactivated with little stress changes in the range of those produced by shallow underground excavations, and that micrometer-to-millimeter scale reactivations may lead to an increased permeability of one order of magnitude without generating any noticeable seismicity. This appears to be related to complex multi-scale geological processes linked to fault history such as differential hardening, partial sealing, pressure solution and gouge development within the fault zones rather than to the regional state of stress. Such results are important in evaluating fault seal integrity in oil and gas exploration, production or CO2 storage or monitoring underground excavations for deep geological repositories.
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Yves Guglielmi, Pierre Henry, Christophe Nussbaum, Pierre Dick, Claude Gout, et al.. Underground Research Laboratories for conducting fault activation experiments in shales.. American Rock Mechanics Association, ARMA, Jun 2015, SAN FRANCISCO, United States. ⟨hal-02866935⟩
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