Natural Fractures

About this area: This is a list of my technical publications and theses. Note that some of them can be read on-line but others are not yet posted. Where noted, the on-line versions of these works include corrections, supplementary figures, and color figures and/or photos instead of black-and-white.

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Publications

	Lacazette (2000) A. Lacazette, 2000, Natural Fracture Nomenclature, Disk 1, 13 pages, in L.B. Thompson (editor) Atlas of Borehole Images, AAPG Datapages Discovery Series 4, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa (2 compact disks).
	Carmona et al (1998) R. Carmona, J. Graterol; N. Piña, O. Suarez, A. Lacazette, E. Frost Jr., G. Gómez, T. Quinn, 1998, Revitalization of Mara Field, Journal of Petroleum Technology, v.50 , no.2, p.78-82.
	Carmona et al (1997) R. Carmona, J. Graterol; N. Piña, O. Suarez, A. Lacazette, E. Frost Jr., G. Gómez, T. Quinn, 1997, Revitalization of Mara Field, SPE 38665, p. 241-256.
	Lacazette & Engelder (1992) A. Lacazette and T. Engelder, 1992, Fluid-driven cyclic propagation of a joint in the Ithaca Siltstone, Appalachian Basin, New York: p. 297 - 323 in B. Evans and T.-F. Wong (editors): Fault Mechanics and Transport Properties of Rocks; a festschrift in honor of W. F. Brace: Academic Press, San Diego.
	Lacazette (1991c) A. Lacazette, 1991, Reply: Geology, v. 19, no. 9 (September), p.955-956.
	Lacazette (1991b) A. Lacazette, 1991, Reply: Geology, v. 19, no. 6 (June), p.664.
	Lacazette (1991a) A. Lacazette, 1991, A new stereographic technique for the reduction of scanline survey data of geologic fractures: Computers and Geosciences, v. 17, no. 3, p. 445 - 463.
	Lacazette (1990) A. Lacazette, 1990, Application of linear elastic fracture mechanics to the quantitative evaluation of fluid inclusion decrepitation: Geology, v. 18, no. 8 (August), p. 782 - 785.
	Engelder & Lacazette (1990) T. Engelder and A. Lacazette, 1990, Natural hydraulic fracturing: p. 35 - 43 in N. Barton and O. Stephansson (editors): Rock Joints: Proceedings of the international symposium on rock joints. Loen, Norway. June 4-6, 1990: A.A. Balkema, Brookfield.
	Lacazette & Rast (1989) A. Lacazette and N. Rast, 1989, Tectonic mélange at Chunky Gal Mountain, North Carolina: p. 217 - 228 in J.R. Horton, Jr. and N. Rast (editors): Geological Society of America Special Paper 288, Mélanges and Olistostromes of the U.S. Appalachians.

Theses

Ph.D.
A. Lacazette, 1991, Natural Hydraulic Fracturing in the Bald Eagle Sandstone in central Pennsylvania and the Ithaca Silstone at Watkins Glen, New York: Unpublished PhD dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 253 pages, 63 Figures, 4 Tables.

M.S.
A. Lacazette, 1986, Structural Geology of Chunky Gal Mountain, Clay County, North Carolina Including a Discussion of the Mechanism of Accretion of the Piedmont and a Computer Program for Generating Fabric Density Diagrams on the Reference Hemisphere: Unpublished M.S. Thesis, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 340 pages, 84 Figures, 5 folded maps in pocket.