Linking capillary and mechanical seal capacity mechanisms

摘要: Mechanical fault reactivation is a mechanism where high fluid pressures generated within zone can change the effective stress such that an optimally orientated segment will rupture. This style of strain has been recognized in three settings: (1) deep crustal locations at greenschist and higher-grade metamorphism with generation; (2) active plate boundaries tectonic stresses result seismicity; (3) hydrocarbon column buoyancy pressure critically stressed fault-bound traps. paper examines category 3 context mechanical capillary processes. For water-wetting rock, may be reached prior to seal capacity. However, non-wetting cannot access rock pore space until height reaches threshold pressure. At pressure, enters imparting excess causing suggests certain circumstances by more accurately predicted than