Recent tectonic stress field investigations in Poland: A state of the art

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 303-321

  Jarosiński, Marek ^a  

^a POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Borehole breakouts; Hydraulic fracturing; Modelling; Poland; Recent geodynamics; Tectonic stress

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEODYNAMICS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 33750469657     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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