Sentence examples for major fracture zone from inspiring English sources

It is also possible that there is a genetic link between the formation of Caledonian eclogites and the Jan Mayen Fracture Zone, which is the only major fracture zone in the North Atlantic.

The floor of the northeastern Pacific is remarkable for its several major fracture zones, which extend east and west and which, in some instances, are identifiable over distances of thousands of miles.

Level 1 flowing fractures: major fracture zones with significant mud losses during stimulation, primary permeable.

In addition to the erosion described above, several major fracture zones are present in both of the Soultz-sous-Forêts wells (GPK-1 and GPK-2).

With approximately 1400 m of sedimentary cover at Soultz-sous-Forêts instead of 2200 m at Rittershoffen, the correlation between the two sites showed many differences exist in the sedimentary columns: layers missing due to erosion, lateral thickness variations in formations, and above all the occurrence of at least four major fracture zones affecting the units.

Highly altered granitic rock and groundwater were obtained from a major subhorizontal fracture zone at a depth of 250 m in the URL.

These structures may correspond to a major fracture or fault zone, and fluid discharge to the arc could account for the lower conductive anomalies in these profiles than in the southernmost KLM-MDC profile where no such structure is observed (Wannamaker, et al. 2014).

Zones of very small rock densities (<2,000 kg m−3) and increased porosities in the Buntsandstein are associated with major fracture and fault zones in the geothermal reservoir.

Hence, we may consider fracture densities on the order of 2 3 m−1 with major fault and fracture zone lengths on the order of <400 500 m (Sausse et al. 2010).

These boundaries are major fault zones.

This depth interval allows Hole 1 to monitor the hydraulic properties of the lower fracture zone of the major strand of the MTL fault zone.