Fault reactivation and ground surface uplift assessment at a prospective German CO2 storage site

Energy Procedia

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 437-446

  Röhmann, Lina ^a,b   Tillner, Elena ^a   Magri, Fabien ^a   Kühn, Michael ^a,b   Kempka, Thomas ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caprock and fault integrity; Geomechanical modeling; Pressure perturbation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898736455     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.08.050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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