Carbonate reservoirs constitute more than 60% of the world's oil, about 40% of its gas reserves. This is the reason why recently an always greater interest has developed about their petrophysical properties and structural mechanisms influencing subsurface fluid migration and storage.
My field site is the Madonna della Mazza (MdM) quarry, situated in the inner part of the forelimb of the Majella anticline (Italy). The quarry represents an excellent natural laboratory to investigate the influence of faults and deformation bands on the subsurface fluid migration.
The goals of my dissertation are:
1) to establish optimum parameters for efficient and
full-resolution 3D GPR surveys;
2) to visualize and interpret faults and deformation
bands with great detail;
3) to investigate the role of those structural elements
on the fluid behavior as a response of a controlled
infiltration experiment.
