Cover image by Quanyou Liu on pages 256-266. The image illustrates the process by which a fault, after its formation, develops sealing capabilities that prevent fluid migration between its two sides. Through mechanisms such as rotation, rolling, cracking, and cataclasis of the host rock particles, the fault forms with both porosity and permeability lower than that of the host rock, thereby acting as a barrier to fluid flow. These effects elucidate the relationship between fluid migration and fault sealing capacity during the formation and evolution of faults.
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												Gang Hui,									Yili Ren,									Jianfei Bi,									Muming Wang,									Chengqian Liu									 | 
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												Yajuan Zhang,									Yunkai Ji,									Minhui Qi,									Lin Dong,									Sunhao Zhang,									Yanlong Li									 | 
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												Zhaoyang Wei,									Mao Sheng,									Jie Li,									Bo Zhang,									Bo Wang,									Gensheng Li									 | 
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												Bozhi Deng,									Bingyang Jiao,									Baisheng Nie,									Changbao Jiang,									Minghui Li,									Yumeng Zhao									 | 
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												Xu Liu,									Qin Li,									Wenling Chen,									Na Li,									Yan Huang,									Huazhou Li									 | 
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												Qiuqi Chen,									Xin Tang,									Ying Shi,									Ruigang Zhang,									Fuhua Shang									 | 
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							Physical simulation and quantitative characterization of fault zones based on ring-shear experiments
					 
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												Mingming Jiang,									Yejun Jin,									Xiaofei Fu,									Quanyou Liu,									David Misch									 | 
			256-266
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												Bin Gong,									Gang Lei,									Litao Chen,									Yapeng Zhao									 | 
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