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Oh, and a fracture is understood as a network and not a single fault?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon May 12th, 2008 at 09:17:32 AM EST
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Technically, a fracture is a fracture; a fault is a fracture which has undergone (tectonic) movement. Both can occur at all scales. However, a fracture network at the micro scale has the potential to develop into a fault at the meso/macro scale. Faults organize them in networks - fault zones - fractally identical to a network of micro fractures or micro faults.

One fracture is just a fracture; a single fault is derived from a network of micro/meso fractures.

by Nomad on Mon May 12th, 2008 at 09:39:03 AM EST
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