In situ stress state in the Nankai accretionary wedge estimated from borehole wall failures

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Chang, Chandong ^a   McNeill, Lisa C ^b   Moore, J Casey ^c   Lin, Weiren ^d   Conin, Marianne ^e   Yamada, Yasuhiro ^f  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

borehole breakouts; drilling induced tensile fractures; in situ stress; Nankai accretionary wedge

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); FRACTURE; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; ROCK DRILLING; TECTONICS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WELL DRILLING;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; ADJACENT SITES; BOREHOLE WALL; DRILLING-INDUCED TENSILE FRACTURES; FORE-ARC BASIN; GEOLOGIC DOMAINS; GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES; INSITU STRESS; LOCAL DEFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM HORIZONTAL PRINCIPAL STRESS; REVERSE FAULTING; ROCK STRENGTH; SLOPE SEDIMENT; SONIC VELOCITY; STRESS FIELD; STRESS MAGNITUDE; STRESS REGIME; STRESS STATE; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; TECTONIC FORCES; TECTONIC STRESS; THRUST FAULTS; VERTICAL BOREHOLE;

BOREHOLES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; DEFORMATION; DRILLING; FRACTURE ZONE; IN SITU STRESS; NORMAL FAULT; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; REVERSE FAULT; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78650570221     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003261     Document Type: Article

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