Present-day stress-field rotations associated with evaporites in the offshore Nile Delta

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1171-1180

  Tingay, Mark ^a,b   Bentham, Peter ^c   de Feyter, Arnoud ^d   Kellner, Axel ^e  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c BP Egypt ^*  (Egypt)

^d International Egypt Oil Company   (Egypt)

^e RWE POWER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EVAPORITES; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT ZONE; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; HORIZONTAL STRESS; IN-SITU; MESSINIAN; NILE DELTA; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRESS ORIENTATIONS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

HORIZONTAL DRILLING; HORIZONTAL WELLS; OFFSHORE BOREHOLES; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEDIMENTATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; WELLS;

FRACTURE;

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DRILLING; EVAPORITE; FAULTING; FRACTURE; IN SITU STRESS; STRESS FIELD;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

ANDERSONIA;

EID: 79953772098     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30185.1     Document Type: Article

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