RT Journal Article
T1 Las bifurcaciones en diaclasas secundarias: geometría tridimensional (ejemplos de la Cuenca del Ebro)
T1 Cross-joint forking: 3-D geometry (examples from the Ebro basin, Spain)
A1 Arlegui, L. E.
A1 Simón Gómez, José Luis
AB Forking is the process of fracture bifurcation ¡rito two or more diverging fracture planes. It occurs when a fracture reaches a critical velocity concomitant with its approach to a previous discontinuity. The literature gives a comprehensive 2-D description of forking, and this work presents a 3-D description of these structures. Outcrop observations suggest that the radiant line (line bounding the parent joint and the bifurcated fractures) is curve shaped (like fracture tip while propagation), and the angle between bifurcated fractures remains aproximately the Same all along the vertical dimension of the joint. This geometry results from the influence of both the previous perpendicular joint towards the parent joint forks and the lithologic boundary at top and bottom of the jointed layer
PB Sociedad Geológica de España
YR 1997
FD 1997
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/10247
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/10247
LA spa
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 15 jun 2026