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Normal fault damage zone growth in map view from analogue models

Sylvain Mayolle
Roger Soliva
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Stéphane Dominguez
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Christopher Wibberley
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Better understanding of stress perturbations, strain propagation and fluid flow in the upper crust require characterisation of fault damage zone evolution. Outcrop studies help understand the different processes operating during fault movement; but capture little about the evolution through time. In this study, we investigate damage zone evolution using high-resolution analogue modelling; simulating the growth of a normal fault population. The incremental strain reveals that early deformation stages occur by strain localisation into corridors of distributed deformation. Active deformation within these corridors becomes narrower as segment linkage occurs, leading to the formation of master faults, encouraging further localisation of incremental strain. This results in wide zones of cumulative strain around the fault, accommodated by different types of fault damage geometry, which formed at very different stages of the fault system growth. We also highlight the new concept of "fault system damage", that shows similarities with observations in nature. These first descriptions of the fault damage evolution allow an understanding of the composite content of damage zones. This gives support to assess zones of permeability enhancement in naturally fractured reservoirs, and proposes a view of damage distribution for targeting fluid flow, geothermal resources, leaks, micro/macro seismicity and mechanical properties of fault zones.
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hal-04264210 , version 1 (30-10-2023)

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Sylvain Mayolle, Roger Soliva, Stéphane Dominguez, Christopher Wibberley. Normal fault damage zone growth in map view from analogue models. Journal of Structural Geology, 2023, 176, pp.104975. ⟨10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104975⟩. ⟨hal-04264210⟩
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