Stress orientations of Taiwan Chelungpu-Fault Drilling Project (TCDP) hole-A as observed from geophysical logs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Wu, Hung Yu ^a   Ma, Kuo Fong ^a   Zoback, Mark ^b   Boness, Naomi ^b   Ito, Hisao ^c   Hung, Jih Hao ^a   Hickman, Stephen ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; EARTHQUAKES; IMAGE SENSORS; MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DIPOLE SONIC IMAGER (DSI); FORMATION MICRO IMAGER (FMI); GEOPHYSICAL LOGS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BEDDING PLANE; BOREHOLE; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EURASIAN PLATE; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; SHEAR ZONE; STRESS FIELD; WELL LOGGING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 34548007902     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028050     Document Type: Article

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