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List of works by Stephen E. Laubach

A 48 m.y. history of fracture opening, temperature, and fluid pressure: Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, East Texas basin

scholarly article

A history of pore water oxygen isotope evolution in the Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation in East Texas

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

A scale-independent approach to fracture intensity and average spacing measurement

article published in 2006

A universal power-law scaling exponent for fracture apertures in sandstones

scholarly article

Advances in carbonate exploration and reservoir analysis

scholarly article by J. Garland et al published 2012 in Geological Society Special Publication

Analysis of spatial arrangement of fractures in two dimensions using point process statistics

scientific article published in 2022

Anisotropy and beyond: Geologic perspectives on geophysical prospecting for natural fractures

Aperture-size scaling variations in a low-strain opening-mode fracture set, Cozzette Sandstone, Colorado

Are open fractures necessarily aligned with maximum horizontal stress?

scholarly article

Case study of an extensive silicic lava: the Bracks Rhyolite, Trans-Pecos Texas

scholarly article

Characteristics and origins of coal cleat: A review

scholarly article

Coevolution of crack-seal texture and fracture porosity in sedimentary rocks: cathodoluminescence observations of regional fractures

article by S.E Laubach et al published May 2004 in Journal of Structural Geology

Combining diagenesis and mechanics to quantify fracture aperture distributions and fracture pattern permeability

scholarly article by Jon E. Olson et al published 2007 in Geological Society Special Publication

Correlation analysis of fracture arrangement in space

Degradation of fracture porosity in sandstone by carbonate cement, Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA

scholarly article

Diagenesis in porosity evolution of opening-mode fractures, Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic La Boca Formation, NE Mexico

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Diagenetic controls on fracture permeability and sealing

scientific article published in 1997

Early Mesozoic uplift in west-central Arizona and southeastern California

scholarly article

Editorial: Spatial arrangement of faults and opening-mode fractures

article

Effects of diagenesis (cement precipitation) during fracture opening on fracture aperture-size scaling in carbonate rocks

scholarly article by J. N. Hooker et al published 2012 in Geological Society Special Publication

Episodic reactivation of carbonate fault zones with implications for permeability – An example from Provence, Southeast France

scientific article published in 2022

Estimating natural fracture producibility in tight gas sandstones: Coupling diagenesis with geomechanical modeling

article

Fault core and damage zone fracture attributes vary along strike owing to interaction of fracture growth, quartz accumulation, and differing sandstone composition

article

Fracture abundance and patterns in the Subandean fold and thrust belt, Devonian Huamampampa Formation petroleum reservoirs and outcrops, Argentina and Bolivia

article

Fracture development and diagenesis of Torridon Group Applecross Formation, near An Teallach, NW Scotland: millennia of brittle deformation resilience?

article by Magdalena A. Ellis et al published May 2012 in Journal of the Geological Society

Fracture porosity creation and persistence in a basement-involved Laramide fold, Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation, Green River Basin, USA

scholarly article

Fracture size, frequency, and strain in the Cambrian Eriboll Formation sandstones, NW Scotland

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Fracture, Dissolution, and Cementation Events in Ordovician Carbonate Reservoirs, Tarim Basin, NW China

scientific article published on 18 April 2020

Fracture-aperture size—frequency, spatial distribution, and growth processes in strata-bounded and non-strata-bounded fractures, Cambrian Mesón Group, NW Argentina

article

Fracturing and fluid flow in a sub-décollement sandstone; or, a leak in the basement

scientific article published in 2015

Insights into rates of fracture growth and sealing from a model for quartz cementation in fractured sandstones

scholarly article

Microfracture spacing distributions and the evolution of fracture patterns in sandstones

Microfractures in bed-parallel veins (beef) as predictors of vertical macrofractures in shale: Vaca Muerta Formation, Agrio Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Argentina

scientific article published in 2017

Microfractures: A review

article

Microstructural controls on elastic anisotropy of finely laminated Mancos Shale

Natural Fractures in shale: A review and new observations

article

Natural fracture characterization in tight gas sandstones: Integrating mechanics and diagenesis

Natural hydraulic fracturing of tight-gas sandstone reservoirs, Piceance Basin, Colorado

scholarly article

New type of kinematic indicator in bed-parallel veins, Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina: E-W shortening during Late Cretaceous vein opening

scientific article published in November 2017

Non-linear growth kinematics of opening-mode fractures

Opening-mode fracture systems: insights from recent fluid inclusion microthermometry studies of crack-seal fracture cements

scholarly article by Joseph M. English & Stephen E. Laubach published 2017 in Geological Society Special Publication

Origin and timing of Dauphiné twins in quartz cement in fractured sandstones from diagenetic environments: Insight from fluid inclusions

scholarly article by András Fall et al published September 2016 in Tectonophysics

Origin of arches in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico basin

scholarly article

Outcrops as guides to subsurface natural fractures: Example from the Nikanassin Formation tight-gas sandstone, Grande Cache, Alberta foothills, Canada

scientific article published in May 2019

Predicting and characterizing fractures in dolostone reservoirs: using the link between diagenesis and fracturing

scholarly article

Prediction of lithofacies and reservoir quality using well logs, Late Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation, Mamm Creek field, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Pure and shear-enhanced compaction bands in Aztec Sandstone

scientific article

Quantifying opening-mode fracture spatial organization in horizontal wellbore image logs, core and outcrop: Application to Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation tight gas sandstones, USA

Quantifying static and dynamic stiffness anisotropy and nonlinearity in finely laminated shales: Experimental measurement and modeling

scholarly article

Quartz c-axis orientation patterns in fracture cement as a measure of fracture opening rate and a validation tool for fracture pattern models

scientific article published in 2016

Rapid digital quantification of microfracture populations

article published in 2006

Spatial arrangement and size distribution of normal faults, Buckskin detachment upper plate, Western Arizona

Spatial arrangement of faults and opening-mode fractures

Structural diagenesis

Testing the basin-centered gas accumulation model using fluid inclusion observations: Southern Piceance Basin, Colorado

The Role of Chemistry in Fracture Pattern Development and Opportunities to Advance Interpretations of Geological Materials

scientific article published in September 2019

The critical role of core in understanding hydraulic fracturing

scientific article published in 2022

The nature and origins of decametre-scale porosity in Ordovician carbonate rocks, Halahatang oilfield, Tarim Basin, China

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Using microstructure observations to quantify fracture properties and improve reservoir simulations. Final report, September 1998

Using the Link Between Diagenesis and Fracturing to Accurately Predict, Characterize, and Model Fluid-Flow in Fractured Carbonate Rocks