Fluid overpressure and stress drop in fault zones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-118

  Gudmundsson, Agust ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; OVERPRESSURE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

DROPS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COEFFICIENT OF SLIDING FRICTIONS; DRIVING STRESS; FLUID OVERPRESSURE; FLUID PRESSURES; GRIFFITH CRITERION; HYDROFRACTURES; NORMAL STRESS; PRINCIPAL STRESS;

FAULTING;

EID: 0032950121     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900228     Document Type: Article

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