Contemporary stress field distortion in the Polish part of the Western Outer Carpathians and their basement

Tectonophysics

Volumn 297, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 91-119

  Jarosiński, Marek ^a  

^a POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Geodynamics; Recent stress; Wellbore breakouts

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; GEODYNAMICS; IN SITU STRESS; STRESS FIELD;

POLAND;

EID: 0345493809     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00165-6     Document Type: Article

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