The study of faults in the upper crust generates interest in modeling their impact on fluid flow and the mechanical behavior of the earth's crust. Fault damage zones are important structures with multiple implications for resource management and earthquake studies. This thesis aims to characterize the distribution and growth of damage around faults and to study its impact on the Displacement - Damage thickness (D-T) scaling law. Two complementary approaches of field measurements and analog modeling of normal faults are developed to answer this question. This manuscript presents new results of fault damage mapping, D-T scaling in carbonate rocks, and the first analog modeling experiments of fault damage zones. The results show a heterogeneou...
The Italian Central Apennines are one of the most seismically active areas in the Mediterranean, hit...
The deformation observed along a seismic fault can be described as the succession of phases for whic...
Fault zones may exert a first-order control on fluid flow by acting either as a barrier and/or condu...
The study of faults in the upper crust generates interest in modeling their impact on fluid flow and...
International audienceA renewed interest in fault damage zones is aimed at better understanding stre...
International audienceFault damage zones strongly influence fluid flow and seismogenic behavior of f...
The Italian Central Apennines are one of the most seismically active areas in the Mediterranean (e.g...
More than 60% of the world’s oil and 40% of the world’s gas reserves are held in carbonates. For thi...
Thèse publiée dans la collection des Mémoires de Géosciences Rennes (ISSN 1240-1498) : Mémoire n° 11...
Damage zones around strike-slip faults show a variety of fracture patterns related to stress concent...
Faults have a (brittle) deformation zone that can be described as the presence of two distintive zon...
When viewed as ideal elastic cracks, seismogenic faults are often modeled as decreases from the host...
The Italian Central Apennines are one of the most seismically active areas in the Mediterranean, hit...
The deformation observed along a seismic fault can be described as the succession of phases for whic...
Fault zones may exert a first-order control on fluid flow by acting either as a barrier and/or condu...
The study of faults in the upper crust generates interest in modeling their impact on fluid flow and...
International audienceA renewed interest in fault damage zones is aimed at better understanding stre...
International audienceFault damage zones strongly influence fluid flow and seismogenic behavior of f...
The Italian Central Apennines are one of the most seismically active areas in the Mediterranean (e.g...
More than 60% of the world’s oil and 40% of the world’s gas reserves are held in carbonates. For thi...
Thèse publiée dans la collection des Mémoires de Géosciences Rennes (ISSN 1240-1498) : Mémoire n° 11...
Damage zones around strike-slip faults show a variety of fracture patterns related to stress concent...
Faults have a (brittle) deformation zone that can be described as the presence of two distintive zon...
When viewed as ideal elastic cracks, seismogenic faults are often modeled as decreases from the host...
The Italian Central Apennines are one of the most seismically active areas in the Mediterranean, hit...
The deformation observed along a seismic fault can be described as the succession of phases for whic...
Fault zones may exert a first-order control on fluid flow by acting either as a barrier and/or condu...