Software, Methods, & Papers by topic
New software and methods for fracture, fault, and diagenesis study are products of our research program. This page provides links to software (where publicly available), accounts of methods (including tutorials), and a listing of some key papers organized by topic.
Software & Models | Methods | Classification & Reviews | Workflows | Case studies | Bridge literature
Notable papers list
Overview Papers
The role of chemistry in fracture pattern development and opportunities to advance interpretations of geological materials. Laubach, S.E., Lander, R.H., Criscenti, L.J., et al., 2019. Reviews of Geophysics 57 (3) doi:10.1029/2019RG000671 | view | blog post
Structural diagenesis. Laubach, S.E, P. Eichhubl, C. Hilgers, R.H. Lander, 2010, Journal of Structural Geology 32 (12), 1866-1872. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.10.001. | view
Software & Models
JOINTS software | Geomechanics- & geochemically based modeling of fracture pattern development
Fully coupled 3D mechanical-chemical pattern model | In development
With fracture patterns with elementary diagenesis | Olson, J.E, Laubach, S.E., and Lander, R.H., 2009, Natural fracture characterization in tight gas sandstones: Integrating mechanics and diagenesis. AAPG Bulletin, 93/11, 1535-1549. | view
With flow modeling | Philip, Z.G., Jennings, J.W., Olson, J.E., Laubach, S.E., and Holder, J., 2005, Modeling coupled fracture-matrix fluid flow in geomechanically simulated fracture networks: Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, 8, 300–309. | view
Fracture patterns | Olson, J.E., 1993, Joint pattern development: Effects of subcritical crack-growth and mechanical crack interaction: Journal of Geophysical Research 98, 12,251–12,265, doi:10.1029/93JB00779. | view
3D code | Fracture growth simulation
Wu, K., Olson, J. E., 2015, A simplified three-dimensional discontinuity method for multiple fracture simulations. Int. J. Fracture 193, 191-204. doi: 10.1007/s10704-015-0023-4 | view
Fracture analysis & statistical software
Normalized Correlation Count – CorrCount – NCC | Rigorous analysis of spatial arrangement. Marrett et al. 2018. | view | AAPG Petroleum Structure & Geomechanics Division Best Recent Paper Award 2019
- Related papers | Marrett, R., Gale, J.F.W., Gomez, L.A. and Laubach, S.E., 2018. Correlation analysis of fracture arrangement in space. Journal of Structural Geology 108, 16-33. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2017.06.012 | view
Matlab-based software, developed for analyses presented in Marrett et al., 2018, is available at no cost at: https://github.com/marrett/CorrelationCount or by contacting Gale or Laubach. Please cite Marrett et al., 2018 if you use the program.
More papers in: Laubach et al., 2018a | view | Journal of Structural Geology: Spatial arrangement of fractures and faults. Journal of Structural Geology, Special issue. Edited by Stephen E. Laubach, William M. Dunne, Juliette Lamarche, Bertrand D.M. Gauthier. 108, 1-290 (March 2018) | view
FracKin | Tool for systematic use of all kinematic indicators. R. Marrett MS in preparation, 2017.
- Related papers | Marrett, R. and Almendinger, R.W., 1990, Kinematic analysis of fault-slip data, Journal of Structural Geology 12/8, 973-986. | view
Fractal Parallel Plate Permeability Software | R. Marrett, unpublished, 2000. Available upon request.
Size Accumulation | Rule-based fracture and size population opening model | J.N. Hooker, 2012, dissertation.
3D orientation statistics routine | R. Marrett in Ukar, E., Laubach, S.E., and Marrett, R., 2016, Quartz c-axis orientation patterns in fracture cement as a measure of fracture opening rate and a validation tool for fracture pattern models: Geosphere 12/2, 1–38, doi: 10.1130/GES01213.1. | view
GoMezure | Software for microanalysis data processing. Gomez, L.A., and Laubach, S.E., 2006, Rapid digital quantification of microfracture populations. Journal of Structural Geology 28, 408-420. | view
Value of Information Analysis | Almansour A., Laubach, S.E., Bickel, J.E., and Schultz, R.A., 2019. Value of Information Analysis of a fracture prediction method. SPE Res. Eval. Eng. Contains software for performing VOI. | view | link to VOI calculator
Model for cement accumulation patterns and rates in fractures
Lander R.H., and Laubach, S.E., 2015, Insights into rates of fracture growth and sealing from a model for quartz cementation in fractured sandstones. Geological Society of America Bulletin 127/3-4, 516-538. doi: 10.1130/B31092.1 (Model for synkinematic fracture cement accumulation)(Prism2D software, R.H. Lander) | view | TOP
Methods
Rock Property Testing | Laboratory Methods
Subcritical Crack Index | Holder, J., Olson, J.E., and Philip, Z., 2001, Experimental determination of subcritical crack growth parameters in sedimentary rock: Geophysical Research Letters 28/4, 599-602. | view
Hydrostone methods | Bahorich, B., Olson, J.E., Holder, J., 2012. Examining the effect of cemented natural fractures on hydraulic fracture propagation in hydrostone block experiments. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 8-10 October 2012, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 160197-MS | view
Testing Fracture-Cement Join | Lee, H.P., Olson, J.E., Holder, J., Gale, J.F.W., Myers, R., 2015, The interaction of propagating opening mode fractures with pre-existing discontinuities in shale. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120/1, 169–181. doi: 10.1002/2014JB011358 | view
Fracture Description & Analysis | Field, Core & Laboratory Methods
Reconstruction of fracture opening histories
Introduction of methods | Laubach, S., Lander, R., Bonnell, L., Olson, J., and Reed, R., 2004, Opening histories of fractures in sandstone: in Cosgrove, J.W., and Engelder, T., editors, The initiation, propagation, and arrest of joints and other fractures, Geological Society of London Special Publication 231, 1-9. | view
Examples | Annotated reference list for bridge analysis papers | TOP
Fracture timing using fluid inclusions, cement texture & accumulation & burial history
The sequence of related papers and their contributions are listed.
Our methods to use diagenesis observations to determine fracture timing have evolved, but the chronology of publication does not match the evolution of ideas. The insight eventually published in Lander & Laubach 2015 was the basis for subsequent research to test or extend the model. Thus key tests of the model (Becker et al. 2010) and adaptation of the model (Gale et al. 2010) were published before Lander’s paper. The listed references document aspects of this approach.
Rigorous cement modeling | Lander R.H., and Laubach, S.E., 2015, Insights into rates of fracture growth and sealing from a model for quartz cementation in fractured sandstones. Geological Society of America Bulletin 127/3-4, 516-538. doi: 10.1130/B31092.1 | view
Model adaptation to carbonate systems | Gale, J. F., Lander, R. H., Reed, R. M., and Laubach, S. E., 2010, Modeling fracture porosity evolution in dolostone. Journal of Structural Geology 32/9, 1201-1211. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.04.018. | view
Lander & Laubach 2015
Fluid inclusion assemblage sequences | Becker, S.P., Eichhubl, P. Laubach, S.E., Reed, R.M., Lander, R.H., & Bodnar, R.J., 2010, A 48 m.y. history of fracture opening, temperature, and fluid pressure: Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, East Texas basin. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122/7-8, 1081-1093; doi 10.1130/B30067.1 | view
Cement accumulation and burial history | Laubach, S.E. & Diaz-Tushman, K., 2009, Laurentian paleostress trajectories and ephemeral fracture permeability, Cambrian Eriboll Formation sandstones west of the Moine thrust zone, northwest Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society (London) 166, part 2, 349-362. | view
Crack-seal sequence reconstruction | Laubach, S.E., Lander, R., Bonnell, L., Olson, J., and Reed, R., 2004, Opening histories of fractures in sandstone: in Cosgrove, J.W., and Engelder, T., editors, The initiation, propagation, and arrest of joints and other fractures, Geological Society of London Special Publication 231, 1-9. | view
Rates from EBSD | Ukar, E., Laubach, S.E., and Marrett, R., 2016, Quartz c-axis orientation patterns in fracture cement as a measure of fracture opening rate and a validation tool for fracture pattern models: Geosphere 12/2, 1–38, doi: 10.1130/GES01213.1. | view
Multiple fracture sets | Laubach, S.E., Fall, A., Copley, L.K., Marrett, R., Wilkins, S., 2016, Fracture porosity creation and persistence in a basement-involved Laramide fold, Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation, Green River Basin, U.S.A. Geological Magazine 153 (5-6), 887-910. doi:10.1017/S0016756816000157 | view
Fractures tied to burial history using diagenesis | Laubach, S.E., 1988, Subsurface fractures and their relationship to stress history in East Texas Basin sandstone: Tectonophysics 156, 37-49. | view | TOP
Fracture sealing & correlation of fracture sealing/openness with production response
Laubach, S.E., 2003, Practical approaches to identifying sealed and open fractures, AAPG Bulletin 87/4, 561-579. (Patterns of fracture sealing by two structural diagenetic pathways) | view
Laubach, S.E., 1988, Subsurface fractures and their relationship to stress history in East Texas Basin sandstone: Tectonophysics 156, 37-49. (definition of pre-, syn-, and postkinematic cement in fractures and host rock) | view
Field tools old and new
Fracture size measurement including comparator tool
Method and comparator | Ortega, O. J., Marrett, R., and Laubach, S. E., 2006, A scale-independent approach to fracture intensity and average fracture spacing: AAPG Bulletin 90/2, 193-208. | view
Related papers | Marrett, R., 1996, Aggregate properties of fracture populations: Journal of Structural Geology 18/2-3, 169-178. | view
Twiss, R. and R. Marrett, 2010, Determining brittle extension and shear strain using fault length and displacement systematics: Part I: Theory, Journal of Structural Geology, 32/12, 1960-1977. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.04.007 | view
Twiss, R. and R. Marrett, 2010, Determining brittle extension and shear strain using fault length and displacement systematics: Part II: Data evaluation and test of the theory, Journal of Structural Geology, 32/12, 1978-1995. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2010.04.006 | view
Fracture analysis from microfractures & microfracture classification
Method to create and analyze mega-thin sections | Gomez, L.A., and Laubach, S.E, 2006, Rapid digital quantification of microfracture populations. Journal of Structural Geology 28, 408-420. | view
Microfracture identification & classification | Laubach, S.E., 1997, A method to detect natural fracture strike in sandstones. AAPG Bulletin 81/4, 604-623. | view
Microfractures: a review | Anders, M., Laubach, S.E., Scholz, C., 2014, Journal of Structural Geology 69/B, 377-394. | view
Deducing location of open fractures from limited core samples
Laubach, S.E., 2003, Practical approaches to identifying sealed and open fractures, AAPG Bulletin 87/4, 561-579. | view
Orienting drilled wireline-sampled sidewall cores
Laubach, S.E., and Gale, J.F.W., 2006, Obtaining fracture information for low-permeability (tight) gas sandstones from sidewall cores: Journal of Petroleum Geology 29/2, 147-158. | view
Selecting suitable outcrop analogs
Laubach, S.E., Olson, J.E, and Gross, M., 2009. Mechanical and fracture stratigraphy. AAPG Bulletin 93(11), 1413-1426. doi: 10.1306/07270909094 | view
Ukar, E., Laubach, S.E., Hooker, J.N., 2019. Outcrops as guides to subsurface natural fractures: example from Late Jurassic to early Cretaceous Nikanassin Formation, Grande Cache, Alberta Foothills, Canada. Marine & Petroleum Geology 103, 255-275; doi.org/101016/j.marpetgeo.2019.01.039. | view
Zeiss SEM
Imaging & Image Analysis | Microanalysis
Ukar, E. and Laubach, S.E., 2016, Syn- and postkinematic cement textures in fractured carbonate rocks: Insights from advanced cathodoluminescence imaging, Tectonophysics 690A, 190-205. (Identification of calcite bridges) | view
Reed, R.M., and Milliken, K.L., 2003, How to overcome imaging problems associated with carbonate minerals on SEM-based cathodoluminescence systems: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 73 (2), 328-332. | view
Milliken, K.L., and Laubach, S.E., 2000, Brittle deformation in sandstone diagenesis as revealed by scanned cathodoluminescence imaging with application to characterization of fractured reservoirs : Chapter 9, Cathodoluminescence in Geosciences, New York, Springer Verlag, 225-243. | view | TOP
Fluid inclusion analysis
Measurement protocol | Fall A., Bodnar R.J., Reynolds, T.J. Fluid Inclusion Assemblages (FIA) revisited: A protocol for collecting, displaying, and interpreting fluid inclusion microthermometric data to constrain the history of fluid events. Ore Geology Reviews | view
Pressure estimation | Becker, S.P., Eichhubl, P. Laubach, S.E., Reed, R.M., Lander, R.H., & Bodnar, R.J., 2010, A 48 m.y. history of fracture opening, temperature, and fluid pressure: Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, East Texas basin. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122/7-8, 1081-1093; doi 10.1130/B30067.1 | view
Classifications & Reviews
- Overview | Laubach et al. 2019 Reviews of Geophysics | view
- Fracture Height Classification | Hooker et al. 2013 Journal of Structural Geology | view
- Mechanical and Fracture Stratigraphy | Laubach et al. 2009 AAPG Bulletin | view
- Fracture & Host Rock Cement | Laubach 2003 AAPG Bulletin | view
- Fault and Fracture Spatial Arrangement | Laubach et al. 2018 | view |; Marrett et al. 2018 | view
- Fracture Spatial Arrangement Model | Olson 2004; Olson et al. 2009 | view
- Fracture Terminology (Overall) | Schultz & Fossen 2008 AAPG Bulletin | view
- Cement in Fractures; Sealing | Laubach 2003 AAPG Bulletin; | view
- Cement in Fractures: Porosity Preserving | Lander & Laubach 2015 GSA Bulletin | view
- Fluid Inclusion Assemblage Protocol | Fall et al. Ore Geology Reviews | view
- Geohydrologic cycle | Bodnar et al. 2013 GSA Sp. Paper 500 | view
- Fracture System Permeability | Olson et al. 2009 AAPG Bulletin | view
- Fracture Permeability Estimation from Models |Olson et al., 2010 TLE | view
- Pores | Milliken & Curtis Marine & Petroleum Geology 2016 | view
- Structural Diagenesis | Laubach et al. 2010 Journal of Structural Geology | view
- Shale Fracture Systems | Gale et al. 2014 AAPG Bulletin | view
- Deformation Bands | Fossen, Schultz et al. Journal of the Geological Society | view
- Compaction bands | Eichhubl et al., 2009 AAPG Bulletin | view
- Seismic fracture characterization | Marrett et al., 2007 TLE | view
- Coal Fracture (Cleat) Systems | Laubach et al. 1998 Int. J. Coal Geol. | view
- Tight Gas Sandstone Fracture Systems | Laubach in preparation
- Microfracture Classification | Laubach 1997 AAPG Bulletin | view
- Microfracture Review | Anders, Laubach, Scholz 2014 Journal of Structural Geology | view
Workflows
- Fracture models to DFN | FRAC site [password required]
- Natural fracture models to HF treatment design | FRAC site
- Fracture pattern realization to permeability prediction | FRAC site
- Rock property measurements to fracture pattern realization | FRAC site
- Fracture timing analysis to validated fracture prediction model | FRAC site
- Core analysis: calibrated and validated seismic methods for fracture quantification | FRAC site
- Core analysis: fracture intensity measures for all samples (overcome sampling limitations) | FRAC site
- Core analysis: fracture open/not open measures (overcome sampling limitations) | FRAC site
- Core analysis: fracture strike measures (overcomes sampling limitations) | FRAC site
- Properly select and use outcrop analogs as guides to subsurface | FRAC site | TOP
Case studies | selected studies by region
| TOP | Basin and formation specific studies. For additional site-specific studies see Current publications list
Texas
Gasparrini, M., Sassi, W., Gale, J.F.W., 2014, Natural sealed fractures in mudrocks: A case study tied to burial history from the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, USA. Marine and Petroleum Geology 55, 122-141. | view
East Texas TGS | Becker, S.P., Eichhubl, P. Laubach, S.E., Reed, R.M., Lander, R.H., & Bodnar, R.J., 2010, A 48 m.y. history of fracture opening, temperature, and fluid pressure: Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, East Texas basin. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122 (7/8), 1081-1093; doi 10.1130/B30067.1 | view
Gale, J.F.W., Reed, R.M., and Holder, J., 2007, Natural fractures in the Barnett Shale and their importance for hydraulic fracture treatments: AAPG Bulletin, 91: 603-622. | view
Laubach, S.E., 1988, Subsurface fractures and their relationship to stress history in East Texas Basin sandstone: Tectonophysics, 156, 37-49. | view
Western US | Wyoming, Colorado
Laubach, S.E., Fall, A., Copley, L.K., Marrett, R., Wilkins, S., 2016. Fracture porosity creation and persistence in a basement-involved Laramide fold, Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation, Green River Basin, U.S.A. Geological Magazine 153 (5/6), 887-910. doi:10.1017/S0016756816000157 | view
Fall, A., Eichhubl, P., Bodnar, R. J., Laubach, S.E., Davis, J.S., 2015. Natural hydraulic fracturing of tight-gas sandstone reservoirs, Piceance Basin, Colorado. Geological Society of America Bulletin 127(1-2), 61-75. doi:10.1130/B31021.1 | view
Fall, A., Eichhubl, P., Cumella, S.P., Bodnar, R.J., Laubach, S.E., & Becker, S.P., 2012, Testing the basin-centered gas accumulation model using fluid inclusion observations: southern Piceance Basin, Colorado. AAPG Bulletin, 96/12, 2297-2318. doi:10.1306/05171211149 | view
Hennings, P.H., Olson, J.E., and Thompson, L.B., 2000, Combining outcrop data and three-dimensional structural models to characterize fractured reservoirs: An example from Wyoming. AAPG Bulletin 84(6), 830-849. | view
Laubach, S.E., Marrett, R., Olson, J., and Scott, A.R., 1998, Characteristics and origins of coal cleat: a review: International Journal of Coal Geology, 35, 175-207. | view
Western US | California & Utah
Eichhubl, P., Hooker, J.N., Laubach, S.E., 2010, Pure and shear-enhanced compaction bands in Aztec Sandstone, Journal of Structural Geology, 32/12, 1873-1886. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2010.02.004. | view
Eichhubl, P., Taylor, W.L., Pollard, D.D. and Aydin, A., 2004, Paleo-fluid flow and deformation in the Aztec Sandstone at the Valley of Fire, Nevada-Evidence for the coupling of hydrogeologic, diagenetic, and tectonic processes. GSA Bulletin, 116(9/10), 1120-1136. | view
Eichhubl, P., ed., 1998, Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation of coastal California: SEPM Pacific Section Special Publication, 83, 98 p. | view
Eastern US & Mid-continent
Pommer, L., Gale, J.F.W., Eichhubl, P., Fall, A., Laubach, S.E., 2013, Using structural diagenesis to infer the timing of natural fractures in the Marcellus Shale. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, 12-14 August 2013. URTeC Control ID 1580135 | view
Makowitz A., Milliken K.L., 2003, Quantification of brittle deformation in burial compaction, Frio and Mount Simon Formation sandstones: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 73 (6), 1007-1021. | view
Laubach, S.E., 1988, Fractures generated during folding of the Palmerton Sandstone, eastern Pennsylvania: Journal of Geology, 96(4), 495–503. | view
Canada
Ukar, E., Laubach, S.E., Hooker, J.N., in review, 2018. Outcrops as guides to subsurface natural fractures: example from Late Jurassic to early Cretaceous Nikanassin Formation, Grande Cache, Alberta Foothills, Canada. Marine & Petroleum Geology. | view
Ukar, E., Ozkul, C., Eichhubl, P., 2016. Fracture abundance and strain in folded Cardium Formation, Red Deer River anticline, Alberta Foothills, Canada. Marine & Petroleum Geology 76, 210-230. doi: 10.1016/jmarpetgeo.2016.05.016 | view
Olson, J.E., Laubach, S.E., and Eichhubl, P., 2010, Estimating natural fracture producibility in tight gas sandstones: coupling diagenesis with geomechanical modeling. The Leading Edge 29(12), 1494-1499. | view
Mexico
Outcrop TGS analog | Laubach, S.E. & Ward, M.W., 2006, Diagenesis in porosity evolution of opening-mode fractures, Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic La Boca Formation, NE Mexico. Tectonophysics 419, 75-97. | view
Ortega, O.J., Marrett, R., and Laubach, S.E., 2006, A scale-independent approach to fracture intensity and average fracture spacing: AAPG Bulletin 90(2), 193-208. | view
Outcrop TGS analog | Hooker, J.N., Larson, T., Eakin, A., Laubach, S.E., Eichhubl, P., Fall, A., Marrett, R., 2015. Fracturing and fluid-flow in a sub-décollement sandstone; or, a leak in the basement. Journal of The Geological Society, London 172, 428-442. doi: 10.1144/jsg2014-128. | view
Argentina
Ukar, E., Lopez, R.G., Laubach, S.E., Gale, J.F.W., Manceda, R., and Marrett, R., 2017. Microfractures in bed-parallel veins (beef) as predictors of vertical macrofractures in shale: Vaca Muerta Formation, Agrio Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Argentina. South American Journal of Earth Sciences 79, 152-169. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2017.07.015 | view
Ukar, E., Lopez, R.G., Gale, J.F.W., Laubach, S.E., Manceda, R., 2017. 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. Journal of Structural Geology 104, 31-47. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2017.09.01 | view
Hooker, J.N., Laubach, S.E., and Marrett, R., 2013, Fracture-aperture size–frequency, spatial distribution, and growth processes in strata-bounded and non-strata-bounded fractures, Cambrian Mesón Group, NW Argentina. Journal of Structural Geology, 54, 54-71. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2013.06.011| view
Iñigo, J.F., Laubach, S.E., Hooker, J.N., 2012, Fracture abundance and patterns in the Subandean fold and thrust belt, Devonian Huamampampa Formation petroleum reservoirs and outcrops, Argentina and Bolivia. Marine & Petroleum Geology, 35/1, 201-218. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.01.010 | view
Scotland
Laubach, S.E., Eichhubl, P. Hargrove, P., Ellis, M.A., Hooker, J.N., 2014. Fault core and damage zone fracture attributes vary along strike owing to interaction of fracture growth, quartz accumulation, and differing sandstone composition. Journal of Structural Geology 68, Part A, 207-226. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2014.08.007 | view
For a list of additional publications from this area see summary under 2007 Field Symposium
Further information about quartz bridge literature
Identification of crack-seal bridges | Laubach, S.E., 1988, Subsurface fractures and their relationship to stress history in East Texas Basin sandstone: Tectonophysics, 156, 37-49. | view
CL description of crack-seal bridges | Laubach, S.E., Reed, R.M., Olson, J.E., Lander, R.H., & Bonnell, L.M., 2004, Coevolution of crack-seal texture and fracture porosity in sedimentary rocks: cathodoluminescence observations of regional fractures : Journal of Structural Geology, 26/5, 967-982. | view
Bridge mapping & reconstruction | Laubach, S., Lander, R., Bonnell, L., Olson, J., and Reed, R., 2004, Opening histories of fractures in sandstone: in Cosgrove, J.W., and Engelder, T., editors, The initiation, propagation, and arrest of joints and other fractures, Geological Society of London Special Publication 231, 1-9. | view
CL-based bridge reconstructions tied to burial history | Laubach, S.E. & Ward, M.W., 2006, Diagenesis in porosity evolution of opening-mode fractures, Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic La Boca Formation, NE Mexico. Tectonophysics 419, 75-97. | view
Replication with model | Lander R.H., and Laubach, S.E., 2015, Insights into rates of fracture growth and sealing from a model for quartz cementation in fractured sandstones. Geological Society of America Bulletin 127/3-4, 516-538. doi: 10.1130/B31092.1 | view
Tied to FIA sequencing; test of Lander model | Becker, S.P., Eichhubl, P. Laubach, S.E., Reed, R.M., Lander, R.H., & Bodnar, R.J., 2010, A 48 m.y. history of fracture opening, temperature, and fluid pressure: Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, East Texas basin. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122 (7/8), 1081-1093; doi 10.1130/B30067.1 | view
Compared to gas generation | Fall, A., Eichhubl, P., Cumella, S.P., Bodnar, R.J., Laubach, S.E., & Becker, S.P., 2012, Testing the basin-centered gas accumulation model using fluid inclusion observations: southern Piceance Basin, Colorado. AAPG Bulletin, 96/12, 2297-2318. doi:10.1306/05171211149 | view
Regional extension | Hooker, J.N., Larson, T., Eakin, A., Laubach, S.E., Eichhubl, P., Fall, A., Marrett, R., 2015. Fracturing and fluid-flow in a sub-décollement sandstone; or, a leak in the basement. Journal of The Geological Society, London 172, 428-442. doi: 10.1144/jsg2014-128. | view
Regional patterns | Fall, A., Eichhubl, P., Bodnar, R. J., Laubach, S.E., Davis, J.S., 2015. Natural hydraulic fracturing of tight-gas sandstone reservoirs, Piceance Basin, Colorado. Geological Society of America Bulletin 127(1-2), 61-75. doi:10.1130/B31021.1 | view
Entire fracture trace | Alzayer, Y., Eichhubl, P., Laubach, S.E., 2015. Non-linear growth kinematics of opening-mode fractures. Journal of Structural Geology 74, 31-44. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2015.02.003 (published online March 2015) | view
Compared with EBSD | Ukar, E., Laubach, S.E., Marrett, R., 2016. Quartz c-axis orientation patterns in fracture cement as a measure of fracture opening rate and a validation tool for fracture pattern models: Geosphere 12(2), 400–438, doi: 10.1130/GES01213.1. | view
Related to Dauphiné twins and fracture closure | Fall, A., Ukar, E., Laubach, S.E., 2016. Origin and timing of Dauphiné twins in quartz cement in fractured sandstones from diagenetic environments: insight from fluid inclusions. Tectonophysics 687, 195-209. doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.08.014 | view
Multiple fracture sets in horizontal core | Laubach, S.E., Fall, A., Copley, L.K., Marrett, R., Wilkins, S., 2016. Fracture porosity creation and persistence in a basement-involved Laramide fold, Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation, Green River Basin, U.S.A. Geological Magazine 153 (5/6), 887-910. doi:10.1017/S0016756816000157 | view
Tied to thermoelastic contraction | English, J.M., and Laubach, S.E., 2017. Opening-mode fracture systems – Insights from recent fluid inclusion microthermometry studies of crack-seal fracture cements. In Turner, J.P., Healy, D., Hillis, R.R., and Welch, M., eds., Geomechanics and Geology: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 458, 257-272. doi:10.1144/SP458.1 | view
Ancient bridges identified in sealed fractures | Laubach, S.E. and Diaz-Tushman, K., 2009, Laurentian paleostress trajectories and ephemeral fracture permeability, Cambrian Eriboll Formation sandstones west of the Moine thrust zone, northwest Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society (London), 166, part 2, 349-362. | view
Correlated with fracture size patterns | Hooker, J.N., Gomez, L.A., Laubach, S.E., Gale, J.F.W. & Marrett, R., 2012, Effects of diagenesis (cement precipitation) during fracture opening on fracture aperture-size scaling in carbonate rocks. In Garland, J., J.E. Neilson, S.E. Laubach, & K. J. Whidden (eds.) Advances in Carbonate Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Geological Society of London Special Publications 370, 187-206. doi:10.1144/SP370.9. | view
Microfracture array evolution | Hooker, J.N., Laubach, S.E., and Marrett, R., 2018. Microfracture spacing distributions and the evolution of fracture patterns in sandstones. Journal of Structural Geology 108, 66-79. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2017.04.001 | view | TOP
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