Explorer Geophysical Corner
By Bahaa Beshry,Cole Webster,Jim Hill,Lee Hunt,Satinder Chopra
Curvature has long been used by geologists to predict the density of natural fractures from outcrop. Sand box experiments show that correlations between curvature and strain can be significant, which is supportive of the curvature-strain-natural fractures supposition inherent in the use of curvature to predict natural fractures.