"Industrial Structural Geology: Principles, Techniques and Integration" ed. by F. L. Richards, et al.

This volume explores how structural geology can be applied to industrial activities. It includes case studies that exhibit the state of the art and provides an overview of current and future trends in structural geology. The constituent papers cover a wide range of topics, including regional tectonics; trap and prospect definition; fault, fold and fracture analysis; seal analysis; interpretation of geophysical, borehole, core and outcrop data.

The volume demonstrates how structural concepts ultimately create value and how academic institutions, specialist consultants and operating companies work together at a variety of scales and in varied geological settings to explore for and produce natural resources for the economic benefit of society.

Contents
Principles
Interpretational variability of structural traps: implications for exploration risk and volume uncertainty
Trapping of buoyant fluids in fault-bound structures
The association of folds and fractures and the link between folding, fracturing and fluid flow during the evolution of a fold–thrust belt: a brief review
The role of fluid pressure in contractional systems: examples from the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains

Techniques
Structural model creation: the impact of data type and creative space on geological reasoning and interpretation
A unified approach to measuring structures in orientated drill core
A method for characterizing basement rocks from borehole images
3D characterization of fracture systems using Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an example from the Lewisian basement of NW Scotland

Integration and case studies
Five anomalous structural aspects of rift basins in Thailand and their impact on petroleum systems
The crustal architecture of the Faroe–Shetland Basin: insights from a newly merged gravity and magnetic dataset
Structural geology and well planning in the Clair Field
The missing complexity in seismically imaged normal faults: what are the implications for geometry and production response?
Predicting subseismic fracture density and orientation in the Gorm Field, Danish North Sea
Unlocking stranded resources in naturally fractured reservoirs using a novel approach to structural reconstructions and palaeostress field modelling: an example from the Hoton field, southern North Sea, UKCS