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Multiscale interpretation and scaling analysis of the censored brittle structural framework within the crystalline bedrock of Southern Finland




AuthorsNordbäck Nicklas, Ovaskainen Nikolas, Markovaara-Koivisto Mira, Skyttä Pietari, Ojala Antti E.K., Engström Jon, Nixon Casey

PublisherThe Geological Society of Finland

Publication year2023

JournalBulletin of the Geological Society of Finland

Volume95

Issue1

First page 5

Last page32

eISSN1799-4632

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.17741/bgsf/95.1.001

Web address https://doi.org/10.17741/bgsf/95.1.001

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/180490283


Abstract

Fracture studies commonly lack data for the length range between 10 m to 1 km. For this reason, scaling laws are required to extrapolate fracture properties, for example in discrete fracture network models. This study focused on analysis and correlation of topology, orientation and length distribution of multiscale fracture datasets to assess their scalability. The used datasets comprise UAV-derived photogrammetric models from natural outcrops and lineaments mapped using airborne LiDAR, bathymetry and aerogeophysical data, in several contrasting scales and resolutions. This study highlights challenges in acquiring uncensored and coherent brittle structural datasets from source data characterized by a large span of resolutions between the remote sensing datasets and models of the fractured outcrop. In specific, collected data was found to be potentially biased and affected by uncertainties related to both the censoring by sedimentary cover and the scale of observation. Our results revealed differences between lineament and outcrop fracture orientations, as well as difficulties in assessing topological parameters from lineament datasets. The 1:200000 resolution was found best suited to the mapping of lineament length and resulted in a length distribution power law exponent of -1.92. For outcrop fractures that are less than 2 m long, the lognormal length distribution provided the only good fit to our data, while the longer outcrop fractures fitted relatively well with a power law exponent of -2.26.


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