Fracture Outcrop (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Fracture Outcrop

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Stephen Laubach, the leader of the fracture and diagenesis program at the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences' Bureau of Economic Geology, stands on an outcrop of fractured standstone in Grand Teton National Park. The outcrop is an excellent analog for subsurface gas reservoirs.

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Ann Laubach

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