Sentence examples for large faults in from inspiring English sources
"The fact that there are so many large faults in this part of Pluto indicates that the crust has experienced a major extension at some point in its history," White said.
Areas in potential reservoirs having the highest effective tensile stress were found to possess the most favorable fracturing pattern, distributed at the intersections of large faults in the immediate vicinity of fractured areas.
Indeed, some field studies on large faults in porous rocks have shown that permeability decreases as the fault is approached (Shipton et al. 2002; Farrell et al. 2014).
Similar studies on large faults in low-porosity rock attest to a significant increase in permeability within the adjacent damage zone (Mitchell and Faulkner 2012), although the low permeability of the fault core can impart a permeability anisotropy (Faulkner and Rutter 2001; Wibberley and Shimamoto 2003).
Incorporating spatial clustering of smaller-scale faults around large faults results in a higher variance of bulk permeability.
They related this behavior to the presence of large fault zones in the vicinity of the well, which dominate their seismic evolution.
Basin boundaries include several large anticline and syncline systems on the east and west, and large fault systems in the south (Fig. 1) which are primarily a product of the ancestral Rocky Mountain orogeny (McBride and Nelson 1999).
Nagai et al. (2001) found that the 1968 Tokachi-Oki earthquake and the 1994 Sanriku-Haruka-Oki earthquake had a large fault slip in the same region of the plate interface.
Reports on tsunami excitation (Maeda et al, 2011) and seismic waveform inversions of teleseismic and strong motion data (Koketsu et al., 2011; Yoshida et al., 2011) revealed a large fault slip in Segments B′ and C′, supporting the scenario of our strong initial rupture.
Zoback: We know the risk is posed by large faults which are potentially active in the current stress field.
While the resolution needed for the earthquake forecasting is unknown, a minimum horizontal resolution of 30 km a scale comparable to relatively large active faults in the Japanese Islands is likely to be necessary to capture the horizontal scales over which stress regimes locally change.
