STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF NATURAL FRACTURES AND THE POSSIBLE PHYSICAL GENERATING MECHANISM

被引：28

作者：

BOADU, FK

LONG, LT

机构：

[1] School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, GA

来源：

PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS | 1994年 / 142卷 / 02期

关键词：

FRACTAL; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; FRACTURING; STRESS DISTRIBUTION;

D O I：

10.1007/BF00879304

中图分类号：

P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];

学科分类号：

0708 ; 070902 ;

摘要：

We have fitted field measurements of fracture spacings (from the vicinity of Lake Strom Thurmond, Georgia, U.S.A.) to the Weibull, Schuhmann and fractal distributions. The fracture spacings follow a fractal and Weibull distribution which implies that they were formed as a result of a repetitive fragmentation process. The limited variation of the fracture density with orientation in the study area suggests that the stress distribution generating these fractures may be uniform.

引用

页码：273 / 293

页数：21

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