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Fracture Morphology
Fracture Morphology
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Fracture Morphology
This image was captured in Adrspach, Czech Republic and shows a coarse-grained sandstone that that undergone extensional fracturing. The radiating nature of the wall seen on the left-hand side of the image is called a plumose structure. This occurs when the material is heterogeneous, and a shift in stress occurs along an imperfection. The curved half-circle structures that run repeatedly up the left-hand wall are arrest lines, which mark where the stress was exhausted and then reactivated later when sufficient load accumulated. The maximum principal stress in this image would be parallel to the wall and the minimum principal stress would be perpendicular to the wall.
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Fracture Morphology, , (CU2184507) by University of Calgary, is used under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Courtesy of Geoscience Images Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.