Origins of non-tectonic fractures in shale

Source rocks in foreland basins: A preferential context for the development of natural hydraulic fractures

(2021) A. Zanella et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Direct evidence for fluid overpressure during hydrocarbon generation and expulsion from organic-rich shales

(2020) Miao Wang et al.   GEOLOGY

Ultra-slow throw rates of polygonal fault systems

(2020) James J. King et al.   GEOLOGY

Interplay between pore connectivity and permeability in shale sample

(2020) Davud Davudov et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Shale anisotropy and natural hydraulic fracture propagation: An example from the Jurassic (Toarcian) Posidonienschiefer, Germany

(2020) John N. Hooker et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Silica diagenesis promotes early primary hydrocarbon migration

(2020) Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz et al.   GEOLOGY

Layering in Shales Controls Microfracturing at the Onset of Primary Migration in Source Rocks

(2020) Thomas Chauve et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

U-Pb dating of overpressure veins in late Archean shales reveals six episodes of Paleoproterozoic deformation and fluid flow in the Pilbara craton

(2020) Birger Rasmussen et al.   GEOLOGY

Anomalous compaction due to silica diagenesis — Textural and mineralogical evidence from hemipelagic deep-sea sediments of the Japan Sea

(2020) Shahab Varkouhi et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Hectometer-scale, shallow buried honeycomb-like structures on the continental shelf of the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia

(2020) Yakufu Niyazi et al.   Interpretation-A Journal of Subsurface Characterization

The milankovitch fingerprint on the distribution and thickness of bedding-parallel veins (beef) in source rocks

(2020) Edouard Ravier et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Natural mineralized fractures from the Montney-Doig unconventional reservoirs (Western Canada Sedimentary Basin): Timing and controlling factors

(2020) Marta Gasparrini et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Elastic characteristics of overpressure due to smectite-to-illite transition based on micro-mechanism analysis

(2019) Xuan Qin et al.   GEOPHYSICS

Outcrop evidence of polygonal faulting in Ypresian marine clays (Southern North Sea Basin) leads to a new synthesis

(2019) Mark Verschuren   MARINE GEOLOGY

Controlling factors on the formation and distribution of “sweet-spot areas” of marine gas shales in South China and a preliminary discussion on unconventional petroleum sedimentology

(2019) Qiu Zhen et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

The Role of Chemistry in Fracture Pattern Development and Opportunities to Advance Interpretations of Geological Materials

(2019) S. E. Laubach et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Microstructural investigation of different nanopore types in marine-continental transitional shales: Examples from the Longtan formation in Southern Sichuan Basin, south China

(2019) Jizhen Zhang et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Seismic analysis of polygonal fault systems in the Great South Basin, New Zealand

(2019) Jianjun Li et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Role of pressure solution in the formation of bedding-parallel calcite veins in an immature shale (Cretaceous, southern UK)

(2018) QINGFENG MENG et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Pore-types and pore-network evolution in Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Woodford and Mississippian Barnett mudstones: Insights from laboratory thermal maturation and organic petrology

(2018) Lucy T. Ko et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Displacive Widening of Calcite Veins in Shale: Insights Into the Force of Crystallization

(2018) Qingfeng Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

Fractures in mudrocks: Advances in constraining timing and understanding mechanisms

(2018) J.N. Hooker et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Spatial arrangement of faults and opening-mode fractures

(2018) S.E. Laubach et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Evolution of organic pores in marine shales undergoing thermocompression: A simulation experiment using hydrocarbon generation and expulsion

(2018) Miao Shi et al.   Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Mathematical modeling of microcrack growth in source rock during kerogen thermal maturation

(2018) Yunfei Yang et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Fluid expulsion and microfracturing during the pyrolysis of an organic rich shale

(2018) Hamed Panahi et al.   FUEL

The impacts of effective stress and CO 2 sorption on the matrix permeability of shale reservoir rocks

(2017) Wei Wu et al.   FUEL

Impact of silica diagenesis on the porosity of fine-grained strata: An analysis of Cenozoic mudstones from the North Sea

(2017) Thilo Wrona et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Silica Diagenesis, Porosity Evolution, and Mechanical Behavior In Siliceous Mudstones, Mowry Shale (Cretaceous), Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.

(2017) Kitty L. Milliken et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

Microfractures in bed-parallel veins (beef) as predictors of vertical macrofractures in shale: Vaca Muerta Formation, Agrio Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Argentina

(2017) Estibalitz Ukar et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

How microfracture roughness can be used to distinguish between exhumed cracks and in-situ flow paths in shales

(2017) Anne Pluymakers et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Genesis of natural hydraulic fractures as an indicator of basin inversion

(2017) Qingfeng Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

New type of kinematic indicator in bed-parallel veins, Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina: E-W shortening during Late Cretaceous vein opening

(2017) Estibalitz Ukar et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Early overpressuring in organic-rich shales during burial: evidence from fibrous calcite veins in the Lower Jurassic Shales-with-Beef Member in the Wessex Basin, UK

(2017) Qingfeng Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Microfracturing during primary migration in shales

(2017) Marcello Goulart Teixeira et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Pore and pore network evolution of Upper Cretaceous Boquillas (Eagle Ford–equivalent) mudrocks: Results from gold tube pyrolysis experiments

(2016) Lucy T. Ko et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Microfracturing and microporosity in shales

(2016) Audrey Ougier-Simonin et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Impact of thermal maturation on nano-scale elastic properties of organic matter in shales

(2016) Simon Emmanuel et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Evolution of porosity and pore types in organic-rich, calcareous, Lower Toarcian Posidonia Shale

(2016) Eliza J. Mathia et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Silica diagenesis in Cenozoic mudstones of the North Viking Graben: physical properties and basin modelling

(2015) Thilo Wrona et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Petrophysical implications of source rock microfracturing

(2015) Mohsen Kalani et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Stable carbon isotope ratios of CH4-rich gas inclusions in shale-hosted fracture-fill mineralization: A tool for tracing hydrocarbon generation and migration in shale plays for oil and gas

(2015) Volker Lüders et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Natural hydraulic fractures in the Wessex Basin, SW England: Widespread distribution, composition and history

(2015) A. Zanella et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

The interaction of propagating opening mode fractures with preexisting discontinuities in shale

(2015) Hunjoo P. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Characterization and development of subsurface fractures observed in the Marcellus Formation, Appalachian Plateau, north-central Pennsylvania

(2014) Scott Wilkins et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Failure modes of shales and their implications for natural and man-made fracture assemblages

(2014) Atilla Aydin   AAPG BULLETIN

Natural Fractures in shale: A review and new observations

(2014) Julia F.W. Gale et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Experimental study of hydraulic fracturing for shale by stimulated reservoir volume

(2014) Tiankui Guo et al.   FUEL

Microfractures: A review

(2014) Mark H. Anders et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Shale gas: Analysis of its role in the global energy market

(2014) Mehmet Melikoglu   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Formation temperatures of thermogenic and biogenic methane

(2014) D. A. Stolper et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanisms of shale gas storage: Implications for shale gas exploration in China

(2013) Fang Hao et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Nanometer-scale characterization of microscopic pores in shale kerogen by image analysis and pore-scale modeling

(2013) Cheng Chen et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Evaluation of potential fracture-sealing materials for remediating CO2 leakage pathways during CO2 sequestration

(2013) Paul Tongwa et al.   International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Analysis of the developmental characteristics and major regulating factors of fractures in marine–continental transitional shale-gas reservoirs: A case study of the Carboniferous–Permian strata in the southeastern Ordos Basin, central China

(2013) Wenlong Ding et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Bedding-parallel fibrous veins (beef and cone-in-cone): Worldwide occurrence and possible significance in terms of fluid overpressure, hydrocarbon generation and mineralization

(2013) Peter R. Cobbold et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Natural sealed fractures in mudrocks: A case study tied to burial history from the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, USA

(2013) Marta Gasparrini et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Coupled Numerical Evaluations of the Geomechanical Interactions Between a Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation and a Natural Fracture System in Shale Formations

(2013) N. B. Nagel et al.   ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING

A model of fracture nucleation, growth and arrest, and consequences for fracture density and scaling

(2013) Philippe Davy et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Spectrum of pore types and networks in mudrocks and a descriptive classification for matrix-related mudrock pores

(2012) Robert G. Loucks et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

The nature of porosity in organic-rich mudstones of the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation, North Sea, offshore United Kingdom

(2012) Neil S. Fishman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

A review of the formation of tectonic veins and their microstructures

(2012) Paul D. Bons et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Kilometre-scale polygonal seabed depressions in the Hatton Basin, NE Atlantic Ocean: Constraints on the origin of polygonal faulting

(2012) Christian Berndt et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Gas-driven subcritical crack propagation during the conversion of oil to gas

(2012) Z. Q. Fan et al.   PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCE

4D imaging of fracturing in organic-rich shales during heating

(2011) Maya Kobchenko et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Diagenetically induced shear failure of fine-grained sediments and the development of polygonal fault systems

(2011) Joe Cartwright   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Initiation and propagation of polygonal fault arrays by thermally triggered volume reduction reactions in siliceous sediment

(2011) Richard J. Davies et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Fracture development in shale and its relationship to gas accumulation

(2011) Wenlong Ding et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Subcritical propagation of an oil-filled penny-shaped crack during kerogen-oil conversion

(2010) Z. Q. Fan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Structural diagenesis

(2010) S.E. Laubach et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Measurement of diagenetic compaction strain from quantitative analysis of fault plane dip

(2010) Raluca Cristina Neagu et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Influence of pore water chemistry on silica diagenesis: evidence from the interaction of diagenetic reaction zones with polygonal fault systems

(2010) Mark T. Ireland et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Joint sets that enhance production from Middle and Upper Devonian gas shales of the Appalachian Basin

(2009) Terry Engelder et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Differential compaction due to the irregular topology of a diagenetic reaction boundary: a new mechanism for the formation of polygonal faults

(2009) R. J. Davies et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Widespread bedding-parallel veins of fibrous calcite (’beef') in a mature source rock (Vaca Muerta Fm, Neuquén Basin, Argentina): evidence for overpressure and horizontal compression

(2009) Nuno Rodrigues et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

A permeability–porosity relationship for mudstones

(2009) Yunlai Yang et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

New insights into the volume and pressure changes during the thermal cracking of oil to gas in reservoirs: Implications for the in-situ accumulation of gas cracked from oils

(2008) Hui Tian et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Contraction-driven shear failure in compacting uncemented sediments

(2008) Hosung Shin et al.   GEOLOGY

Terrestrial methane seeps and mud volcanoes: A global perspective of gas origin

(2008) Giuseppe Etiope et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Geomechanics of polygonal fault systems: a review

(2008) N. R. Goulty   PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCE