Discussion on "Integrating borehole-breakout dimensions, strength criteria, and leak-off test results, to constrain the state of stress across the Chelungpu Fault, Taiwan"

Tectonophysics

Volumn 492, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 295-298

  Zhang, Jincai ^a   Roegiers, Jean Claude ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Borehole breakout; Borehole tensile failure; Extended leak off test; In situ stress; Maximum horizontal stress constraint

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650521863     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.04.038     Document Type: Note

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