遥感岩石力学及其应用前景

遥感岩石力学是岩石力学中的一个新的高技术学科领域.本文简述了产生这一学科领域的实验基础并对这一学科领域的特点和应用前景进行了讨论.     

岩石分形断裂的统计理论

本文研究了岩石分形断裂的统计理论.认为岩石断裂是岩石内部微裂缝成核、形成和传播的非平衡过程,导出了描述这个过程的微分方程.运用位错塞积成核机理,得到了岩石发生分形断裂的微裂缝大小的统计分布函数和平均长大速率.从理论上得出了岩石非弹性体积应变与微裂缝数目成正比,从而解释了实验室研究的结果.另外发现岩石的分维是决定岩石脆性的一个重要因素,分维值愈小,岩石愈脆.但岩石的分维值与岩石强度无明显关系.最后,从微裂缝大小的统计分布函数出发,导出了b值与岩石分维值的关系.     

A new approach for field instrumentation in grouted rock bolt monitoring using guided ultrasonic waves

A rock bolt installed in the field for ground support has only one short exposed end on the rock surface. This condition has posed challenges in field instrumentation. In this paper, a new approach for field monitoring of grouted rock bolts using guided ultrasonic waves is proposed with the receiving transducer on the grout surface near the exposed end of the bolt. The effects of the receiver location are studied with numerical modeling. A location correction factor is introduced to correlate the amplitude ratio along the bolt and that on the grout surface. Experiments are conducted to verify the modeling results. This research indicates that it is practically possible to receive meaningful signals with the receiver on the grout surface and that with the recorded data the attenuation and wave velocity of guided waves in grouted rock bolts can be determined with reasonable accuracy. The proper receiver location is found to be 27 to 32 mm from the bolt center for the test condition.     

基于岩石物理分析的叠前弹性反演预测含气砂岩分布(英文)

地震反演是当今最广泛应用于含油气储层预测的技术之一,取得了很多很好的预测效果,但也有失败的例子,达不到区分岩性和识别流体的目的。而本文介绍的建立在岩石物理建模和分析基础上的地震弹性反演,可将含油气储层预测由定性向(半)定量推进一步。根据岩石物理建模和正演扰动分析,可深刻理解岩石物性参数与地震弹性参数之间的内在关系,进而寻找储层岩性、物性和含油气性的敏感地震弹性参数,建立起理论岩石物理解释图版。岩石物理分析结果和所建立的岩石物理解释图版分别用以指导地震反演和反演结果的解释,实现油气储层分布预测和流体检测的目的。文中的含气砂岩分布预测实例研究应用结果表明,这种方法较叠后地震反演储层预测技术具有无可比拟的优越性,效果更佳,效率更高。     

Characterization of fractured reservoirs using a consistent stiffness‐permeability model: focus on the effects of fracture aperture

In this paper we propose a method for the characterization of naturally fractured reservoirs by quantitative integration of seismic and production data. The method is based on a consistent theoretical frame work to model both effective hydraulic and elastic properties of fractured porous media and a (non‐linear) Bayesian method of inversion that provides information about uncertainties as well as mean (or maximum likelihood) values. We model a fractured reservoir as a porous medium containing a single set of vertical fractures characterized by an unknown fracture density, azimuthal orientation and aperture. We then look at the problem of fracture parameter estimation as a non‐linear inverse problem and try to estimate the unknown fracture parameters by joint inversion of seismic amplitude versus angle and azimuth data and dynamic production data. Once the fracture parameters have been estimated the corresponding effective stiffness and permeability tensors can be estimated using consistent models. A synthetic example is provided to clearly explain and test the workflow. It shows that seismic and production data complement each other, in the sense that the seismic data resolve a non‐uniqueness in the fracture orientation and the production data help to recover the true fracture aperture and permeability, because production data are more sensitive to the fracture aperture than the seismic data.     

Drowning discontinuities and stratigraphic correlation in platform carbonates. The late Barremian–early Aptian record of southeast France

In Provence and Languedoc, four drowning events were identified in platform carbonates of late Barremian–Bedoulian age. Their recognition is based on sedimentological and stratigraphical evidence, and their timing, referred to ammonite zones or subzones, is as follows:

• (1) 

  Late Barremian, at the G. sartousiana–Imerites giraudi transition, or merely the lowermost part of the I. giraudi zone,

• (2) 

  Middle Bedoulian, at the Deshayesitesweissi–Deshayesites deshayesi transition,

• (3) 

  Mid late Bedoulian in correspondence with the “Roloboceras hambrovi subzone”,

• (4) 

  Late Bedoulian at the Deshayesites grandis–Deshayesites furcata transition.

Corresponding events are also well expressed in basinal settings where they are marked by significant facies and faunal changes.These four successive drowning events distinguish four successive steps in platform development and demise. Step 1 was coeval with the onset of the Bedoulian palaeogeography and started after drowning event (1) with a drastic reduction of shallow platform settings with rudists, usually replaced by Palorbitolina facies. The ensuing recovery of rudist facies and, following drowning event (2), subsequent step 2 marked the developmental phase of the platform system, whereas steps 3 and 4, each prefaced by a drowning event, were associated with its demise. Step 1 represents the major spreading phase of the Urgonian type facies spectrum including bioclastics, coral and rudist facies groups. In Provence, step 1 was characterized by a bipolar (N-S) progradation, and aggradation was coeval with a maximum of subsidence. The termination of step 1 was marked by the emergence of the antecedent platform margin. Step 2, which followed the disappearance of rudist facies and the extreme spatial reduction of both coral and bioclastic facies, started with the flooding of the antecedent platform and the development of Palorbitolina and cherty limestones. Shallow water bioclastics and/or coral facies recovered rapidly on top of the pre-existing emerged areas and developed locally as bioclastic shoals. Step 2 documents a regional reorganisation of subsidence patterns.The infralittoral (high illuminated environments) “Urgonian facies” are therefore essentially present in the Lower Bedoulian, and circalittoral (relatively deep low illuminated environments) deposits dominate in the Upper Bedoulian. This pattern, typical for SE France and wide parts of the Helvetic shelf, departs from that of adjacent regions (e.g. SW France, Spain) where late Bedoulian platform carbonates have a significant record. The record thus shows that the demise of the Urgonian platform was a step-wise phenomenon which cannot be ascribed to a single event, i.e. the Goguel/Selli OAE1a main event.     

Comparison of rock discontinuity mean trace length and density estimation methods using discontinuity data from an outcrop in Wenchuan area,China

The equations that exist in the literature to estimate corrected mean trace length and corrected two-dimensional density of a rock discontinuity set using area sampling technique are critically reviewed. The discontinuity traces appearing in an outcrop in Yingxiu area in China are used along with rectangular windows to calculate the corrected mean trace length and two-dimensional density using Kulatilake and Wu’s equations. Similarly, circular windows are used along with Mauldon’s and Zhang and Einstein’s equation to calculate the mean trace length and Mauldon’s equation to calculate the two-dimensional density for the same discontinuity sets using the same outcrop discontinuity trace data. For both parameters, the predictions based on the rectangular window methods were found to be more accurate than that based on the circular window methods.     

扬子地区晚奥陶世碳酸盐台地淹没事件及其地质意义

碳酸盐岩台地广泛发育及其淹没事件是扬子地区晚奥陶世地层的重要特征之一.基于岩石学、沉积学特征和古生物资料等对扬子地区晚奥陶世碳酸盐岩台地沉积演化、淹没事件及其油气地质意义进行了分析.结果表明:扬子地区晚奥陶世沉积演化分为宝塔一临湘期碳酸盐台地沉积和五峰期深水、浅水陆棚沉积两个阶段;淹没事件开始于五峰初期,主要受控于构造...     

Disappearing ink: How pseudotachylytes are lost from the rock record

Melt-origin pseudotachylytes are the most widely accepted feature recording earthquake slip in the fault rock record. However, reports of pseudotachylytes are rare compared to the frequency and distribution of earthquakes in active faults, suggesting melting occurs only under exceptional circumstances and therefore that pseudotachylytes are rarely formed. In this paper, we document the processes whereby pseudotachylytes are overprinted, destroyed and otherwise removed from the rock record. We present examples of recrystallized, altered, and cataclastically and crystal plastically deformed pseudotachylytes from a variety of ancient faults. Based on these observations, we identify characteristics of pseudotachylytes that are resistant to change over geologic time and develop criteria to allow recognition of relict pseudotachylytes. Our results imply that pseudotachylytes are vastly under-reported due to their vulnerability to destruction and the resulting difficulty in identification. As a consequence, the significance of frictional melting is underestimated. The criteria we propose to distinguish relict pseudotachylytes can help to reconcile the observed frequency of earthquakes with the difficulty of demonstrating ancient seismic slip in the rock record.     

Time-dependent cracking and brittle creep in crustal rocks: A review

Rock fracture under upper crustal conditions is driven not only by applied stresses, but also by time-dependent, chemically activated subcritical cracking processes. These subcritical processes are of great importance for the understanding of the mechanical behaviour of rocks over geological timescales. A macroscopic manifestation of time-dependency in the brittle field is the observation that rocks can deform and fail at constant applied stresses, a phenomenon known as brittle creep. Here, we review the available experimental evidence for brittle creep in crustal rocks, and the various models developed to explain the observations. Laboratory experiments have shown that brittle creep occurs in all major rock types, and that creep strain rates are extremely sensitive to the environmental conditions: differential stress, confining pressure, temperature and pore fluid composition. Even small changes in any of these parameters produce order of magnitude changes in creep strain rates (and times-to-failure). Three main classes of brittle creep model have been proposed to explain these observations: phenomenological, statistical, and micromechanical. Statistical and micromechanical models explain qualitatively how the increasing influence of microcrack interactions and/or the increasing accumulated damage produces the observed evolution of macroscopic deformation during brittle creep. However, no current model can predict quantitatively all of the observed features of brittle creep. Experimental data are limited by the timescale over which experiments are realistically feasible. Clearly, an extension of the range of available laboratory data to lower strain rates, and the development of new modelling approaches are needed to further improve our current understanding of time-dependent brittle deformation in rocks.