Present-day stress field of Southeast Asia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 482, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 92-104

  Tingay, Mark ^a   Morley, Chris ^b   King, Rosalind ^c   Hillis, Richard ^c   Coblentz, David ^d   Hall, Robert ^e  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PTTEP   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intraplate stresses; Present day stress; Southeast Asia; Sunda plate

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE-MOTION; CENOZOIC TECTONICS; DATA SETS; EURASIA; HORIZONTAL STRESS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; INTRAPLATE STRESS FIELDS; INTRAPLATE STRESSES; MALAY BASIN; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PRESENT-DAY STRESS; SCALE STRESS; SLIP ZONES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STRESS FIELD; STRESS INDICATORS; STRESS PATTERNS; SUMATRA BASIN; TECTONIC PLATES; THAILAND; TWO PLATES; VARIABLE STRESS; VIET NAM;

FRACTURE; FRACTURE TESTING; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; STATISTICAL TESTS; TECTONICS;

STRESSES;

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; COLLISION ZONE; DATA SET; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DRILLING; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SPREADING CENTER; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 76049090874     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.06.019     Document Type: Article

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