Fracturing and Sealing in a Subsurface Salt Body: The Súria Anticline (SE Pyrenees)

Enrique Gomez-Rivas; Albert Griera; Elisabet Playà; David Gómez-Gras; Anna Travé; Maria Gema Llorens

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43807-3_23

Fracturing and Sealing in a Subsurface Salt Body: The Súria Anticline (SE Pyrenees)

Enrique Gomez-Rivas^*, Albert Griera, Elisabet Playà, David Gómez-Gras, Anna Travé, Maria Gema Llorens

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Networks of halite veins have been analysed along galleries of the potash Cabanasses mine (Súria anticline, SE Pyrenees). The presence of a shape preferred orientation cross-cut by halite veins suggests that the rocks hosting the veins underwent ductile deformation before fracture formation and healing. The petrographical characteristics of veins and host rocks, as well as the analysis of their bromine content, reveal that the vein-forming fluids likely resulted from pressure-solution and dynamic recrystallisation of the Lower Halite Unit rocks. Fluids at high pressure migrated upwards and were arrested at the Halite-Sylvinite Unit causing fracture formation below the Potash Unit, which acted as a seal and did not experience brittle deformation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Selected Studies in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-3
Editors	Sami Khomsi, Mourad Bezzeghoud, Santanu Banerjee, Mehdi Eshagh, Ali Cemal Benim, Broder Merkel, Amjad Kallel, Sandeep Panda, Haroun Chenchouni, Stefan Grab, Maurizio Barbieri
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	111-114
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-43807-3
ISBN (Print)	9783031438066
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43807-3_23
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Name	Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation
ISSN (Print)	2522-8714
ISSN (Electronic)	2522-8722

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Bromine
Halite veins
Hydrofracture
Permeability
Subsurface salt

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Gomez-Rivas, E., Griera, A., Playà, E., Gómez-Gras, D., Travé, A., & Llorens, M. G. (2024). Fracturing and Sealing in a Subsurface Salt Body: The Súria Anticline (SE Pyrenees). In S. Khomsi, M. Bezzeghoud, S. Banerjee, M. Eshagh, A. C. Benim, B. Merkel, A. Kallel, S. Panda, H. Chenchouni, S. Grab, & M. Barbieri (Eds.), Selected Studies in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-3 (pp. 111-114). (Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43807-3_23

Gomez-Rivas, Enrique ; Griera, Albert ; Playà, Elisabet et al. / Fracturing and Sealing in a Subsurface Salt Body : The Súria Anticline (SE Pyrenees). Selected Studies in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-3. editor / Sami Khomsi ; Mourad Bezzeghoud ; Santanu Banerjee ; Mehdi Eshagh ; Ali Cemal Benim ; Broder Merkel ; Amjad Kallel ; Sandeep Panda ; Haroun Chenchouni ; Stefan Grab ; Maurizio Barbieri. Springer Nature, 2024. pp. 111-114 (Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation).

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Fracturing and Sealing in a Subsurface Salt Body: The Súria Anticline (SE Pyrenees). / Gomez-Rivas, Enrique; Griera, Albert; Playà, Elisabet et al.
Selected Studies in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-3. ed. / Sami Khomsi; Mourad Bezzeghoud; Santanu Banerjee; Mehdi Eshagh; Ali Cemal Benim; Broder Merkel; Amjad Kallel; Sandeep Panda; Haroun Chenchouni; Stefan Grab; Maurizio Barbieri. Springer Nature, 2024. p. 111-114 (Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation).

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Gomez-Rivas E, Griera A, Playà E, Gómez-Gras D, Travé A, Llorens MG. Fracturing and Sealing in a Subsurface Salt Body: The Súria Anticline (SE Pyrenees). In Khomsi S, Bezzeghoud M, Banerjee S, Eshagh M, Benim AC, Merkel B, Kallel A, Panda S, Chenchouni H, Grab S, Barbieri M, editors, Selected Studies in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-3. Springer Nature. 2024. p. 111-114. (Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-43807-3_23

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