In shallow crust, faults often consist of a series of secondary fractures. Based on experimental micro features in rock mechanics and macro structures in field, the progressive coalescence model, in which a brittle fa...In shallow crust, faults often consist of a series of secondary fractures. Based on experimental micro features in rock mechanics and macro structures in field, the progressive coalescence model, in which a brittle fault evolved from micro crack, stylolitic fracture, large fault to super large fault, is founded, and its forming mechanism is discussed by variation of stress field. At last the undulation, branches of faults and the phenomenon that the angle between fractures and the principal stress axis decreases gradually are explained by the G.C.Sih model.展开更多
文摘In shallow crust, faults often consist of a series of secondary fractures. Based on experimental micro features in rock mechanics and macro structures in field, the progressive coalescence model, in which a brittle fault evolved from micro crack, stylolitic fracture, large fault to super large fault, is founded, and its forming mechanism is discussed by variation of stress field. At last the undulation, branches of faults and the phenomenon that the angle between fractures and the principal stress axis decreases gradually are explained by the G.C.Sih model.
