Fracture termination at stratigraphic horizons
     

    Fracture Propagation Through Bonded Layers
    Fracture Termination

    at weak contacts

    at mud/shale horizons

    Temporally Changing Mechanical Stratigraphy

    Shackleton, Ryan, Michele L. COOKE and Aviva J Sussman, 2005. Evidence for temporally changing mechanical stratigraphy and effects on joint network architecture, Geology , vol. 33, pp. 101-104 . (PDF)