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Fig. 7. Schematic north—south cross-section through San Antonio and the Muil Field (see Fig. 1). Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments (the aquifer ) are shown by the limestone Pattern since most are carbonates. They are overlain by Upper Cretaceous clay and chalk. The northern-most outcrops are associated with the Balcones Fault zone near San Antonio. The shallow part of the section is underlain by Paleozoic basement , or by Triassic rocks further south. Jurassic salt is shown by solid hatchures. Darkened areas at A, B and C depict the three producing zones, the Stuart City Reef Trend (the carbonate platform margin), the Karnes Trough and the Atascosa Trough, respectively. Note the faulting associated with them. The temperature axis is speculative below 5 km.

This survey area is situated in the Gardabani region, on the left bank of the river Iori, 30-40 km away from Tbilisi. It is in (II) Transcaucasus intermountain sector, (113) eastern molassa zone of sinking - within the river Kura intermountain trough, sligtly-folded Sartichala sub-zone, near the deep fault, to its East, or, as the author of the map calls it in the molassa zone of Gare Kakheti (II2/3) the so-called of tom molassa blankets. 

Spotila J. A., Farley K. A., Yule J. D., and Reiners P. W. (2001) Near-field transpressive deformation along the San Andreas fault zone in southern California, based on exhumation constrained by (U-Th)/He dating. J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth 106(B12), 30909-30922. 

Areally close compositional contrast is seen in the recent rift area of Djibouti. On the western border, the terminal Lake Abhe is fed by the sodium-carbonate-type Awash River from the Ethiopian volcanic highlands, whereas the Asal Lake near an arm of the Gulf of Aden is fed by seawater through recent fault zones and hydrothermal inputs in addition to local runoff, and precipitates halite and gypsum (Fontes et al., 1979). 

Groundwaters sampled from sub-vertical fractures near the surface and in fault zones as deep as —500 m have 5 C values, which range between —21%o to — %c and Cdic values between 6 pm C and 80 pm C. Except for a decrease of C content with increasing depth, few trends in these data can be seen. Recharging Na-Ca-HC03 waters have 5 C values of between — 18%o and — 11 %c, and Na-HCOs and more saline Na-Ca-Cl groundwaters in deeper fracture... 

Figure 21. Schematic cross-section through the physiographic provinces of Alabama. The location of the section is shown in Fig. 14. Arrows illustrate the hypothesized directions of fluid flow along major fault zones. Sites with arsenic and/or gold enrichment near the presently exposed surface are noted.

Pittman (1981) reported permeability measurements down to <0.05 mD from sandstones collected near fault zones where granulation seams are developed in which porosity had been reduced by both quartz cement and cataclasis. Jamison and Steams (1982) reported reductions of permeability by microfaulting by as much as three orders of magnitude in sandstone they interpreted to have been deformed at a burial depth of 2 km. Harper and... 

Some would argue that such fault zones are unlikely conduits for fluid flow (petroleum migration) along the fault plane because the permeability along the fault plane is nearly always lower than in the matrix next to the fault. These faults may, however, not be impermeable for flow across the faults at moderate depth (<2 km) prior to cementation. 

Weijiadi coalfield is affected by article seven fault, these fault has good sealing coverage ability, which is beneficial for gas accumulation and storage of coal bed, especially, near the fault zones, gas content is significantly increasing in the anticline and syncline axis of coal seam. 

The Santo Domingo concrete arc dam situated near a very active fault zone and the Santo Domingo Tunnel of 16 km extension. 

A third hydrogeologic area is characterized by bedrock aquifers east of the faulted zone, although in some places a thin layer of groundwater-containing alluvial material overlies the bedrock. Depth to groundwater varies 46 m/d (150 ft/d) near the Hubbell Springs Fault to near zero ft along portions of Arroyo del Coyote. 

Three zones of laulting on the west slope of the Sandla and Manzano Mountains have been identified in the vicinity of Manzano Base and the SNL TAs the Tijeras Fault, the Sandia Fault, and the Hubbell Springs Fault. The Tijeras and Sandia Faults converge near the south end of TA-lll into the Hubbell Springs Fault (Rgure 1.5-3). 

From the analysis the influence of fault on the stress of sprayed concrete layer (1) a fault distributed near crown zone makes the tensile stress of sprayed concrete layer increase 4 times comparing with the free fault case (2) a fault distributed near right shoulder zone makes the stress in sprayed concrete layer increase around 10 times in crown zone, but does not affect the stress of middle of left sidewall zone and far crown zone (3) a fault distributed near the right sidewall zone makes tensile stress increase around 20 times in middle of right sidewall, and causes stress increase above 8-10 times in the tunnel crown. 

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