NG21A:
Fracking, Triggering Cascades, and Power Scaling in Natural Systems II Posters

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Session ID#: 15928

Session Description:
High volume, low frictional resistance fracking has unlocked oil and gas shale resources that had been inaccessible to production. How high volume fracking induces distributed fracturing that allows oil and gas recovery is not understood. The properties and scaling of natural fractures are known, but remain unknown for fracking. Fracking involves many interacting physical processes, including fluid flow, rock deformation, utilization of preexisting natural fractures, and feedbacks from the evolving fracture network. 

This session solicits papers on field, laboratory, and theoretical research that address the complexity of fracking, including but not limited to: (1) The basic mechanics of high volume hydraulic fracturing (2) The role of preexisting natural fractures in the process (3) Interactions between fluid injection and fracture branching (4) Induced seismic hazards and (5) Hazards associated with gas and fluid leakage.

Primary Convener:  Christopher Cramer Barton, Wright State University, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry, Dayton, United States
Conveners:  Jörn Davidsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States
Chairs:  Donald L Turcotte, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, J. Quinn Norris, Brigham Young University – Idaho, Rexburg, ID, United States, Robert Shcherbakov, University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada and Ian Graham Main, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  J. Quinn Norris, Brigham Young University – Idaho, Rexburg, ID, United States
Index Terms:

4415 Cascades [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
4475 Scaling: spatial and temporal [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mode I Fracture Toughness of Rock - Intrinsic Property or Pressure-Dependent? (119508)
Ferdinand Stoeckhert, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Sebastian Brenne, MeSy Solexperts GmbH, Bochum, Germany, Michael Molenda, Geoexperts, Dortmund, Germany and Michael Alber, Ruhr University Bochum, Applied Geology, Bochum, Germany
Hydraulic stimulation or low water injection in fractured reservoir of the geothermal well GRT-1 at Rittershoffen (France)? (134419)
Jeanne Vidal1, Albert Genter2, Jean Schmittbuhl3 and Clément Baujard2, (1)University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, (2)Es-Géothermie, Strasbourg, France, (3)University of Strasbourg/CNRS, Strasbourg Cedex, France
Experimental study on hydraulic fracture propagation in Lacustrine Shale (170010)
Rongjing Wang, Guosheng Jiang, Jingyu Xie, Wan Cheng and Hong Tian, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China
A Percolation Perspective for Gutenburg-Richter Scaling and b-values for Fracking Assocated Seismicity (178723)
J. Quinn Norris, Brigham Young University – Idaho, Rexburg, ID, United States
Increasing the production efficiency and reducing the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing (187995)
Hari Selvi Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture Propagation using Fully-Coupled Peridynamics, Thin-Film Flow, and Darcian Flow (189424)
Alejandro Francisco Queiruga, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and George J Moridis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & Texas A&M University, Berkeley/College Station, United States
Rupture directivity of microseismic events recorded during hydraulic fracture stimulations. (197493)
Lindsay Smith-Boughner, Adam Baig, Ted Urbancic and Gisela Viegas, Engineering Seismology Group Canada Inc, Kingston, ON, Canada
Seismic Curvature Estimation Based on Combining Gradient Structure Tensor and Multi-window (134587)
Xiaokai Wang1, Haixia Zhao2 and Wenchao Chen1, (1)Xi'an Jiaotong University, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Xian, China, (2)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
New early warning system for gravity-driven ruptures based on codetection of acoustic signal (140984)
Jerome Faillettaz, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
An Earthquake Recognition Algorithm Based on First-Digit Anomaly Entropy (153885)
Patricio A Toledo, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Jaime A Campos, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Spatial and Temporal Clustering in a Simple Earthquake Asperity Model (169420)
Kristy French Tiampo, University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Dept. of Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States, Javad Kazemian, University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada, Rachele Dominguez, Randolph-Macon College, Department of Physics, Ashland, VA, United States and William Klein, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Modeling Self-Similar Triggering Rates: Simulations and Stability Analysis (161645)
Andres Zambrano1, Jörn Davidsen1 and Marco Baiesi2, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Padova, Physics and Astronomy, Padova, Italy
Power Scaling of the Size Distribution of Economic Loss and Fatalities due to Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, and Floods in the USA (142688)
Sarah F Tebbens, Wright State University, Department of Physics, Dayton, OH, United States, Christopher Cramer Barton, Wright State University, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry, Dayton, United States and Baker E Scott, Wright State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dayton, OH, United States
Power scaling of ammonitic suture patterns from the suborder Ancyloceratina (168994)
David Joseph Peterman, Wright State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dayton, OH, United States and Christopher Cramer Barton, Wright State University, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry, Dayton, United States
Power Law Patch Scaling and Lack of Characteristic Wavelength Suggest “Scale-Free” Processes Drive Pattern Formation in the Florida Everglades (184000)
Stephen Thornhill Casey, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Matthew J Cohen, University of Florida, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, Florida, United States, Subodh Acharya, University of Florida-SFRC, Gainesville, FL, United States, David A Kaplan, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and James W Jawitz, University of Florida, Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
A novel method for detecting abrupt dynamic change based on the changing Hurst exponent of spatial images (124503)
Wenping He, National Climate Center, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Climate Service Division, Beijing, China
The Hurst Exponent of Turbulent Flow: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments (190639)
Seth Seidel1, Ali Ercan1, Kara J Carr1 and ML Levent Kavvas2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Civil, Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States
Determining Scale-dependent Patterns in Spatial and Temporal Datasets (176702)
Ankur Roy, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Edmund Perfect, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tapan Mukerji, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States and Linda Sylvester, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Scale Invariant Power Laws Capture the 3-D Coupling Between Water, Energy and Carbon Budgets Across River Basins of Increasing Horton-Strahler Orders in the Andes-Amazon System (196800)
German Poveda, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia and Andrés Felipe Zapata, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Medellin, Colombia

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