Fracture pattern development has been a challenging area of research in the Earth sciences
for more than 100 years. Much has been learned about the spatial and temporal complexity …

Water and mud inrush is one of the most important geohazards in underground engineering.
The paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the current understanding of this type of …

Our understanding of folds and folding builds on detailed geometrical analysis. Proper
description of folds and their relation to other structures such as fractures, cleavage and …

Mesoscale deformation in fold-thrust belts and foreland areas occurs during the interaction
of evolving stress regimes and mechanical stratigraphy, leading to a progressive …

Abstract The Eastern Southern Alps fold‐and‐thrust belt (ESA) is part of the seismically
active S‐verging retro‐wedge of the European Alps. Its temporal tectonic evolution during …

The central Apennines are a fold-thrust belt currently affected by post-orogenic extensional
seismicity. To constrain the influence that the inherited thrust-related structures exert on the …

We discuss techniques to represent groundwater flow in carbonate aquifers using the three
existing modeling approaches: equivalent porous medium, conduit network, and discrete …

Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

We report U-Pb absolute ages of calcite cements from a diffuse vein network documented in
the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, USA), where distinct systematic vein sets developed at the …

Tectonic fractures are the key factors affecting hydrocarbon migration and accumulation in
ultradeep marine carbonate gas reservoirs. Taking the Maokou Formation in the …