Probing the crust to 9-km depth: Fluid-injection experiments and induced seismicity at the KTB superdeep drilling hole, Germany

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2369-2380

  Baisch, Stefan ^a   Bohnhoff, Marco ^a   Ceranna, Lars ^a   Tu, Yimin ^a   Harjes, Hans Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); FLOW OF FLUIDS;

LOCAL SHEAR-STRESS RELAXATION; LONG-TERM FLUID-INJECTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DRILLING; FLUID INJECTION; INDUCED SEISMICITY; KTB BOREHOLE;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; KTB SITE;

EID: 0036704575     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010236     Document Type: Article

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