Wellbore breakouts of the main borehole of Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) and determination of the present tectonic stress state

Tectonophysics

Volumn 475, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 220-225

  Cui, Jun wen ^a   Wang, Lian jie ^b   Li, Pengwu ^a   Tang, Zhe min ^a   Sun, Dong sheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD); Horizontal principal stress; Stress state; Strike slip fault; Sulu Dabie HP UHP metamorphic belt; Wellbore breakouts

Indexed keywords

CHINESE CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING (CCSD); HORIZONTAL PRINCIPAL STRESS; STRESS STATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SULU-DABIE HP-UHP METAMORPHIC BELT; WELLBORE BREAKOUTS;

BOREHOLES; BORING; DATA PROCESSING; DRILLING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; RADIOACTIVITY LOGGING; TECTONICS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

STRESSES;

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; CHINESE CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORMATION MECHANISM; IN SITU STRESS; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOPHYSICS; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ULTRASONICS; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; DABIE-SULU BELT; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 70349118289     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.03.021     Document Type: Article

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