Relationships among in-situ stress, fractures and faults, and fluid flow: Monterey formation, Santa Maria Basin, California

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1975-1999

  Finkbeiner, Thomas ^a,b,c   Barton, Colleen A ^c,d,e,f   Zoback, Mark D ^a,d,g,h  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c Borehole Geophysics Group   (United States)

^d Stanford ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LITHOLOGY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL TESTING; OIL WELLS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

BEDDING PLANE; BOREHOLE TELEVIEWER; DIAGENESIS; DRILL STEM TEST; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL PLANE MECHANISMS; FAULT; HORIZONTAL STRESS ORIENTATION; KINEMATIC INVERSION; MONTEREY FORMATION;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

EID: 0031337946     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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