Scientific drilling into the San Andreas fault zone - An overview of SAFOD's first five years

Scientific Drilling

Volumn , Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-28

  Zoback, Mark ^a   Hickman, Stephen ^b   Ellsworth, William ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BOUNDING FAULTS; CALIFORNIA; CASING DEFORMATION; CHEMICAL PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEFORMING ZONE; DOWNHOLE MEASUREMENTS; EARTHQUAKE NUCLEATION; FAULT CREEP; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL LOGS; HORIZONTAL STRESS; LOW RESISTIVITY; MEASURED DEPTHS; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; PILOT HOLES; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SCALE-UP; SCIENTIFIC DRILLING; SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STRESS STATE;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; PARKS; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

EID: 79955161589     PISSN: 18168957     EISSN: 18163459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2204/iodp.sd.11.02.2011     Document Type: Article

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