postfailure

adj

postfailure

adj

Etymology From post- + failure.

1

Following 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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