Scaling of fault attributes: A review

A Torabi, SS Berg - Marine and petroleum geology, 2011 - Elsevier
The present paper reviews our current understanding of fault dimensions and their scaling
laws, with special focus on faults in siliciclastic rocks. The aim is to provide a comprehensive …

Determining the transverse surface relaxivity of reservoir rocks: A critical review and perspective

X Ge, MT Myers, J Liu, Y Fan, MA Zahid, J Zhao… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a growing interest in characterizing the pore structure of reservoir rocks using the
low field nuclear magnetic resonance technique. The transverse surface relaxivity is widely …

Factors controlling permeability of cataclastic deformation bands and faults in porous sandstone reservoirs

G Ballas, H Fossen, R Soliva - Journal of Structural Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Improving the prediction of sub-seismic structures and their petrophysical properties is
essential for realistic characterization of deformed sandstone reservoirs. In the present …

Strain localisation and grain breakage in sand under shearing at high mean stress: insights from in situ X-ray tomography

R Alikarami, E Andò, M Gkiousas-Kapnisis, A Torabi… - Acta Geotechnica, 2015 - Springer
This work presents results from a series of triaxial compression tests on two quartz sands
(differing principally in grain shape), at confining pressures high enough to cause grain …

Conditions and implications for compaction band formation in the Navajo Sandstone, Utah

H Fossen, RA Schultz, A Torabi - Journal of Structural Geology, 2011 - Elsevier
Observations from quartz-rich eolian Navajo Sandstone in the Buckskin Gulch site in
southernmost Utah show that pure compaction bands only occur in sandstones where …

Insight into petrophysical properties of deformed sandstone reservoirs

A Torabi, H Fossen, A Braathen - AAPG bulletin, 2013 - archives.datapages.com
We use samples from undeformed and deformed sandstones (single deformation band,
deformation band cluster, slip-surface cataclasite, and fault core slip zone) to characterize …

A universal approximation of grain size from images of noncohesive sediment

D Buscombe, DM Rubin… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The two‐dimensional spectral decomposition of an image of sediment provides a direct
statistical estimate, grid‐by‐number style, of the mean of all intermediate axes of all single …

Spatial variation of microstructure and petrophysical properties along deformation bands in reservoir sandstones

A Torabi, H Fossen - AAPG bulletin, 2009 - archives.datapages.com
ABSTRACT A series of deformation bands from various reservoir sandstones deformed at
different burial depths have been studied with respect to microstructural and petrophysical …

Permeability evolution during triaxial compaction of an anisotropic porous sandstone

P Baud, P Meredith, E Townend - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we report results from an experimental study into the influence of pre‐existing
structural anisotropy on deformation localization and permeability evolution during triaxial …

3D topological analysis in deformation bands: Insights for structural characterization and impact on permeability

RBR de Melo Freitas, FCC Nogueira… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study uses a 3D exposure of a fault zone in the Rio do Peixe Basin (NE Brazil) to
investigate the impact of deformation band connection on permeability in porous …