Contemporary tectonic stress in northeastern Iberia. New results from borehole breakout analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 99-115

  Jurado, María José ^a,b   Müller, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Borehole breakout analysis; Iberia; Stress field

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002261864     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00214-X     Document Type: Article

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