Permeability Structure of a Strike-Slip Fault
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Abstract
A study is being conducted on the Wildcat Fault in Berkeley, California, to develop a methodology for characterizing the hydrologic properties of a fault. The geologic setting of the San Francisco Bay Area is intertwined with some of the most complex and active geology in the world. The rocks are extensively sheared and fractured. The Wildcat, a strike-slip fault, appears to consist of multiple fault planes. That the exact location of the main fault is still in dispute among participating researchers highlights the fact that it is very difficult to uniquely characterize such a complex fault zone. The hydrologic characteristics of the Wildcat Fault zone suggest a dual nature, with high permeability along the direction of the fault zone and low permeability across it. Data from cross-hole pumping tests conducted in the high permeability zone along the fault plane exhibit 10:1 near-horizontal anisotropy, which we think is consistent with the fact that the Wildcat is a strike-slip fault. The main philosophy behind our overall approach to the hydrologic characterization of such a complex fractured system is to let the system present its own average property by performing large-scale tests and conducting long-term monitoring, instead of collecting a multitude of data at small length and time scales, or at a discrete fracture scale and to “up-scale,” which is extremely tenuous at best.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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