Patterns of tectonic stress in Sicily from borehole breakout observations and finite element modeling

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 669-685

  Ragg, Steffen ^a   Grasso, Mario ^b   Müller, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; DEFORMATION; STRESS; TECTONICS;

ITALY; SICILY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BOREHOLE BREAKOUTS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEOLOGICAL UNITS; HORIZONTAL STRESS; STRESS ORIENTATIONS; TECTONIC FEATURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; TRANSITION ZONES;

TECTONICS;

EID: 0033452746     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900010     Document Type: Article

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