Loading rate impact on fracturing pattern: Lessons from hydrocarbon recovery, Lacq gas field, France

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B8, 1999, Pages 17941-17954

  Lahaie, Franz ^a,b,c   Grasso, Jean Robert ^a,c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Maison des Geosciences   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE INITIATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; LOADING;

FRANCE;

EID: 0033428526     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900139     Document Type: Article

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