In-situ stress at the northern portion of the Chelungpu fault, Taiwan, estimated on boring cores recovered from a 2-km-deep hole of TCDP

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 809-819

  Yabe, Yasuo ^a   Song, Sheng Rong ^b   Wang, Chien Ying ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

1999 Chi Chi earthquake; Chelungpu fault; Core method; Crustal stress; Stress memory; TCDP

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; IN SITU STRESS; PALEOSTRESS; STRESS FIELD;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 53849086189     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352832     Document Type: Article

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