Subsurface fractures and their relationship to stress history in East Texas basin sandstone

Tectonophysics

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 1988, Pages 37-49

  Laubach, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS (LOWER); SANDSTONE; STRESS HISTORY; SUBSURFACE FRACTURES; TRAVIS PEAK FORMATION;

USA, TEXAS;

EID: 0024258201     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(88)90281-8     Document Type: Article

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