Contemporary stress orientations from borehole breakout analysis in the southernmost flat-slab boundary Andean retroarc (32°44' and 33°40'S)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Guzmán, Cecilia G ^a,b   Cristallini, Ernesto O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; DATA INTERPRETATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRESS FIELD; STRESS MEASUREMENT;

ARGENTINA; CUYO BASIN; NEUQUEN BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 66149163114     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005505     Document Type: Article

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