Comparison of laminite fracture features at different scales

Laminites (NE Brazil) are well laminated carbonates that provide insight into the geomechanical behaviour of layered systems, especially when comparing deformation characteristics observed in the laboratory with outcrop / field scale deformations.

This is useful in order to

a)  validate where laboratory experiments can reproduce field scale deformation types

b)  understand which feature characteristics can or cannot be scaled