Meanings
adjectivepostfailure (not comparable)
- not comparableFollowing a failure
The significance of this is that an array of hydrofractures in the rupture nucleation site provides a reservoir of overpressured fluids with ready access to the fault postfailure.
1995, James G. Buchanan, Basin Inversion, page 13
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