The Role of Fault Zone Drilling

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 649-674

  Zoback, M D ^a   Hickman, S ^b   Ellsworth, W ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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