Sentence examples for faults or fractures from inspiring English sources

If faults or fractures in the Earth are stressed, they may break, causing an earthquake in Baku that may ripple into the Caspian Sea.

The focus of this study is on the estimation of the probability of leakage along faults or fractures.

In the exploratory adits, alteration was observed to occur mainly along faults or fractures in the rock masses and resulted in roof caving if water is present.

Include a map showing the location, orientation, and extent of any known or suspected faults or fractures within one-half mile (horizontal distance) of the wellbore trajectory that may transect the confining zone(s).

Amongst the potential hazards resulting from these induced stress changes is the reactivation of existing faults or fractures, which may breach the hydraulic integrity of the caprocks that bound the reservoir.

Does it subside along faults or fractures at the edges of dikes?

Presumably, groundwater is migrating through the permeable pyroclastites, following pathways to the surface through predominant faults or fracture patterns.

Incipient subduction zones are often found near transform faults or fracture zones because of their physical weakness (e.g., Mueller and Phillips 1991; Gurnis et al. 2004).

From mud logging based primarily on mud losses, we can define the permeability of a given structure (faults or fracture zones).

Higher fault and lineament density can be used to speculate secondary porosity as most of the faults or fracture system serves as conduits for movement and storage of groundwater.

Since the dykes are not emplaced along faults or fracture, it suggests regional horizontal compressive stress along north south as a region for the emplacement of dyke (Sant and Karanth 1990).