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Modelling the compliance of crustal rock—I. Response of shear-wave splitting to differential stress
Authors:Sergei V Zatsepin  Stuart Crampin
Institution:Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, Grant Institute. West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK. E-mail: szats@glg.ed.ac.uk;scrampin@ed.ac.uk
Abstract:We show that seismic shear waves may be used to monitor the in situ stress state of deep inaccessible rocks in the crust. The most widespread manifestation of the stress-related behaviour of seismic waves is the shear-wave splitting (shear-wave birefringence) observed in almost all rocks, where the polarizations of the leading split shear waves are usually subparallel to the direction of the local maximum horizontal stress. It has been recognized that such shear-wave splitting is typically the result of propagation through distributions of stress-aligned fluid-filled microcracks and pores, known as extensive-dilatancy anisotropy or EDA. This paper provides a quantitative basis for the EDA hypothesis. We model the evolution of anisotropic distributions of microcracks in triaxial differential stress, where the driving mechanism is fluid migration along pressure gradients between neighbouring microcracks and pores at different orientations to the stress field. This leads to a non-linear anisotropic poroelasticity (APE) model for the stress-sensitive behaviour of fluid-saturated microcracked rocks. A companion paper shows that APE modelling matches a range of observed phenomena and is a good approximation to the equation of state of a stressed fluid-saturated rock mass.
Keywords:anisotropy  fluids in rocks  stress distribution  thermodynamics
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