A moving fluid pulse in a fault zone

Matthew M. Haney (), Roel Snieder, Jon Sheiman and Steven Losh
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Matthew M. Haney: Colorado School of Mines
Roel Snieder: Colorado School of Mines
Jon Sheiman: Shell International Exploration & Production
Steven Losh: Cornell University

Nature, 2005, vol. 437, issue 7055, 46-46

Abstract: Eructation event Evidence from the South Eugene Island Block 330 oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico, off Louisiana, suggests that the fault zones there have acted as conduits for fluids rising from deep in the Earth's crust. And now one of these ‘fault burps’ has been observed directly. Seismic-reflection imaging revealed the rapid ascent of a pulse of fluid, rising vertically up the fault by 1 km between 1985 and 1992. Burps like this may be important factors in subsurface hydrocarbon migration.

Date: 2005
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