Abstract
THE effect of faulting on oil accumulation, equally on oil dispersion, has always been a matter of added interest in working out subsurface conditions, probably because each new case studied presents some peculiar feature worthy of close investigation. So many circumstances enter into the consideration of fault-fields, that were a classification of these alone attempted it would result in a tabular scheme almost, if not quite, as large as those already in existence for other structures, and, moreover, just about as useless. Accumulations dominated by normal fault systems, as at Luling, Texas; by reversed faults, as at Whittier, California; by overthrust faults, as at the well-known McKittrick field, California; by the high factor of porosity in many fault-belt shatter-zones where adequately sealed; by the buffer action of solid bitumen resulting from inspissation of heavy oil along planes of dislocation: these are a few of the many possible expressions of fault-structure capable of influencing storage.
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Oil-Pools and Fault-Zones. Nature 124, 859 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124859b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124859b0