Stress studies in the Mahanadi Offshore Basin, India, determined to 4.0 km from wellbore breakout data

Petrophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 481-491

  Chatterjee, Rima ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Manoj ^a  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

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