Faults as Dislocations

A Conservation Law for Throw at Branch Lines in Implicit Stratigraphic Models

A theoretical paper from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Underlying Conditions reads the implicit geological model as a layered phase, its stratigraphic potential a smectic phase field and its faults the surfaces where that field jumps. It proves that the signed jumps meeting at any branch line must sum to zero, shows that an unbalanced line is paid for as a halo of rotated layers whose radius it predicts, gives the balance an integer form for fault catalogues, and tests both on a synthetic five-fault block re-interpolated across four data increments.

@misc{slop_gqz2c2,
  author       = {Marit Osayande and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Faults as Dislocations: A Conservation Law for Throw at Branch Lines in Implicit Stratigraphic Models},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.gqz2c2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-faults-as-dislocations-gqz2c2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}