Localized rotation of principal stress around faults and fractures determined from borehole breakouts in hole B of the Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling Project (TCDP)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 482, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 82-91

  Lin, Weiren ^a   Yeh, En Chao ^a   Hung, Jih Hao ^b   Haimson, Bezalel ^c   Hirono, Tetsuro ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borehole breakout; Fault; Fracture; Stress orientation; Stress perturbation

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE WALL; DOWNHOLES; DRILLING PROJECTS; DRILLING-INDUCED TENSILE FRACTURES; ELECTRICAL IMAGES; FRACTURE STRESS; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; HORIZONTAL STRESS; MESOSCALE; PRINCIPAL STRESS; STRESS DISTRIBUTION; STRESS FLUCTUATIONS; STRESS ORIENTATIONS; STRESS PERTURBATIONS; STRESS STATE; STRESS-INDUCED;

DRILLING; FRACTURE; PHOTOGRAPHY; ROTATION; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

BOREHOLES;

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; CORE ANALYSIS; DRILLING; ELECTRICAL METHOD; FAULT; FRACTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS FIELD; TENSILE STRESS;

CHELUNGPU FAULT ZONE; TAIWAN;

EID: 76049112276     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.06.020     Document Type: Article

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