Fracture development in shale and its relationship to gas accumulation

Shale with high quartz, feldspar and carbonate, will have low Poisson’s ratio, high Young’s modulus and high brittleness. As a result, the shale is conducive to produce natural and induced fractures under external forces. In general, there is a good correlation between fracture development in shale...

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Main Authors: Wenlong Ding, Chao Li, Chunyan Li, Changchun Xu, Kai Jiu, Weite Zeng, Liming Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-01-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987111000892