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Fractures and Fracture Networks (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Fractures and Fracture Networks (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, 15
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Both the beauty and interest of fractures and fracture networks are
easy to grasp, since they are abundant in nature. An example is the
road from Digne to Nice in the south of France, with an impressive
number and variety of such structures: the road for the most part,
goes through narrow valleys with fast running streams penetrating
the rock faces; erosion is favored by the Mediterranean climate, so
that rocks are barely covered by meager vegetation. In this
inhospitable and sterile landscape, the visitor can im mediately
discover innumerable fractures in great masses which have been
distorted by slow, yet powerful movements. This phenomenon can be
seen for about 100 kilometers; all kinds of shapes and combinations
are repre sented and can be observed either in the mountain itself
or in the man-made cliffs and excavations, resulting from
improvements made to the road. In the same region, close to the
Turini Pass, a real large scale hydrody namic experiment is taking
place -a source which is situated on the flank on the mountain, has
been equiped with a tap; if the tap is open, water flows through
the tap only, but when it is closed, then the side of the mountain
releases water in a matter of seconds. Other outlets are also
influenced by this tap, such as a water basin situated a few
hundred meters away."
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