In situ stress field of Australia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 372, Issue , 2003, Pages 49-58

  Hillis, R R ^a   Reynolds, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; In situ stress; Plate dynamics; Stress rotation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ROTATION; STRESSES; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAJECTORIES;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; IN-SITU STRESS FIELD; INSITU STRESS; STRESS ORIENTATIONS; STRESS ROTATION; STRESS TRAJECTORIES; STRONG CORRELATION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; IN SITU STRESS; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRAJECTORY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84871432166     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2372-8.49     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. BRUDY M. & ZOBACK M. D. 1999. Drilling-induced tensile wall-fractures: implications for determination of in-situ stress orientation and magnitude. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 36,191-215. (Pubitemid 29321917)
2. COBLENZ D. D. & RICHARDSON R. M. 1995. Statistical trends in the intraplate stress field. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 20245-20255.
3. COBLENTZ D. D., ZHOU S., HILLIS R. R., RICHARDSON R. M. & SANDIFORD M. 1998. Topography boundary forces, and the Indo-Australian intraplate stress field. Joumalof Geophysical Research 103,919-931.
4. CRAMPIN S., EVANS R. & ATKINSON B. K. 1984. Earthquake prediction: A new physical basis. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 76, 147-156.
5. DEBAYLE E. & KENNETT B. L. N. 2003. Surface-wave studies of the Australian region. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 25-40.
6. DENHAM D., ALEXANDER L. G. & WOROTNICKI G. 1979. Stresses in the Australian crust: evidence from earthquake and in-situ stress measurements. BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 4, 289-295.
7. GOLKE M. & COBLENTZ D. 1996. Origins of the European regional stress field. Tectonophystcs 266, 11-24. (Pubitemid 126384243)
8. GREENHALGH S. A., LOVE D., MALPAS K. & MCDOUGALL R. 1994. South Australian earthquakes, 1980-92. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 41, 483-495.
9. HANSEN K. M. & MOUNT V. S. 1990. Smoothing and extrapolation of crustal stress orientation measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research 95, 1155-1165.
10. HILLIS R. R. 1998. Mechanisms of dynamic seal failure in the Timor Sea and Central North Sea. In: Purcell P. G. & Purcell R. R. eds. The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 2, pp. 313-324. Proceedings of Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Symposium, Perth.
11. HILLIS R. R., ENEVER J. R. & REYNOLDS S. D. 1999. In situ stress field of eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 46, 813-825. (Pubitemid 30028369)
12. HILLIS R. R., MONTE S. A., TAN C. P. & WILLOUGHBY D. R. 1995. The contemporary stress field of the Otway Basin, South Australia: implications for hydrocarbon exploration and production. The APEA Journal 35, 494-506.
13. LAMBECK K., MCQUEEN H. W. S., STEPHENSON R. A. & DENHAM D. 1984. The state of stress within the Australian continent. Annales Geophyslcae 2, 723-742.
14. LOVE D. N., PREISS W. V. & BELPERIO A. P., 1995. Seismicity, neotectonics and earthquake risk. In: Drexel J. F. & Preiss W. V. eds. The Geology of South Australia Volume 2 The Phanerozolc, pp. 268-273. Geological Survey of South Australia Bulletin 54.
15. McCuE K. 1996. Australian Seismological Report 1994. Australian Geological Survey Organisation Record 1996/019.
16. MARDIA K. V. 1972. Statistics of Directional Data. Academic Press, New York.
17. MASTIN L. 1988. Effect of borehole deviation on breakout orientations. Journal of Geophysical Research 93, 9187-9195.
18. MILLIGAN P. R., PETKOVIC P. & DRUMMOND B. J. 2003. Potential-field datasets for the Australian region: their significance in mapping basement architecture. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372.
19. MUELLER B., REINECKER J. & FUCHS K. 2000. The 2000 release of the World stress map. 〈www.world-stress-map.org〉.
20. REYNOLDS S. D., COBLENTZ D. D. & HILLIS R. R. 2003. Influences of plate-boundary forces on the regional intraplate stress field of continental Australia. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 59-70.
21. REYNOLDS S. D. & HILLIS R. R. 2000. The in situ stress field of the Perth Basin, Australia. Geophysical Research Letters 27, 3421-3424. (Pubitemid 32043178)
22. RICHARDSON R. M. 1992. Ridge forces, absolute plate motions, and the intraplate stress field. Journal of Geophysical Research 97, 11739-11748.
23. WELLMAN P. 1998. Mapping of geophysical domains in the Australian continental crust using gravity and magnetic anomalies. In: Braun J., Dooley J., Goleby B., van der Hilst R. & Mootwijk C. eds. Structure and Evolution of the Australian Continent, pp. 59-71. American Geophysical Union Geodynamics Series 26.
24. ZAJAC B. J. & STOCK J. M. 1997. Using borehole breakouts to constrain the complete stress tensor: results from the Sijan Deep Drilling Project and offshore Santa Maria Basin, California. Journal of Geophysical Research 102, 10083-10100.
25. ZOBACK M. D. & ZOBACK M. L. 1991. Tectonic stress field of North America and relative plate motion. In: Slemmons D. B., Engdahl E. R., Zoback M. D. & Blackwell D. D. eds. Neotectonlcs of North America, pp. 339-366. Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America Decade Map Volume 1.
26. ZOBACK M. L. 1992. First- and second-order patterns of stress in the lithosphere: the World stress map project. Journal of Geophysical Research 97, 11703-11728.
27. ZOBACK M. L., ZOBACK M. D., ADAMS J., ASSUMPCAO M., BELL S., BERGMAN E. A., BLUMLING P., BRERETON N. R., DENHAM D., DING ]., FUCHS K., GAY N., GREGERSEN S., GUPTA H. K., GVISHIANI A., JACOB K., KLEIN R., KNOLL P., MAGEE M., MERCIER J. L., MULLER B. C., PAOJJIN C., RAJENDRAN K., STEPHANSSON O., SUAREZ G., SUTER M., UDIAS A., Xu Z. H. & ZHIZHIN M. 1989. Global patterns of tectonic stress. Nature 341, 291-298. (Pubitemid 20409412)