Using borehole breakouts to constrain the complete stress tensor: Results from the Sijan Deep Drilling Project and offshore Santa Maria Basin, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B5, 1997, Pages 10083-10100

  Zajac, Blair J ^a   Stock, Joann M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; BOREHOLES; BREAKOUT; IN SITU STRESS; STRESS; STRESS MEASUREMENT; STRESS TENSOR; THRUST FAULTING;

PACIFIC, SANTA MARIA BASIN;

EID: 0030698162     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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