Along-depth stress rotations and active faults: An example in a 5-km deep well of southern Italy

Tectonics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 3-1-3-9

  Mariucci, Maria Teresa ^a   Amato, Alessandro ^a   Gambini, Roberto ^b   Giorgioni, Maurizio ^b   Montone, Paola ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Enterprise Oil Italiana SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active faults; Borehole breakouts; Southern apennines; Structural analysis in deep wells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BOREHOLE; IN SITU STRESS; ROTATION; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 0036705733     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC001338     Document Type: Article

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