A framework to represent faults with internal branch lines - First results.
in: 2016 RING Meeting, ASGA
Abstract
Faults result from the initiation, growth and coalescence of individual fault segments. As a
result (and as observed in a number of instances), faults may have internal branch lines. Creating
3D models of such faults with classical geomodeling methods is very cumbersome, in particular
because of the intrinsic assumption that faults are manifold surfaces. In this paper, we propose an
updated theoretical framework to represent such surfaces and propose a first implementation of a
tangent fault branching operator that helps automating the generation of such surfaces. We apply
this method to the modeling of a complex fault in the southern Corinth Gulf. In particular, we use
it to test various ways of connecting two fault segments identified at the surface to a detachment
at depth.
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@inproceedings{RUNKJRM42,
abstract = { Faults result from the initiation, growth and coalescence of individual fault segments. As a
result (and as observed in a number of instances), faults may have internal branch lines. Creating
3D models of such faults with classical geomodeling methods is very cumbersome, in particular
because of the intrinsic assumption that faults are manifold surfaces. In this paper, we propose an
updated theoretical framework to represent such surfaces and propose a first implementation of a
tangent fault branching operator that helps automating the generation of such surfaces. We apply
this method to the modeling of a complex fault in the southern Corinth Gulf. In particular, we use
it to test various ways of connecting two fault segments identified at the surface to a detachment
at depth. },
author = { Caumon, Guillaume AND Godefroy, Gabriel AND Laurent, Gautier AND Ford, Mary },
booktitle = { 2016 RING Meeting },
publisher = { ASGA },
title = { A framework to represent faults with internal branch lines - First results. },
year = { 2016 }
}