A revised crustal stress orientation database for Canada

Tectonophysics

Volumn 636, Issue , 2014, Pages 111-124

  Reiter, Karsten ^a,b   Heidbach, Oliver ^a   Schmitt, Douglas ^c   Haug, Kristine ^d   Ziegler, Moritz ^a,b   Moeck, Inga ^a,e  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d ALBERTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Canada)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alberta; Canada; Circular statistics; Database; Stress pattern; Tectonic stress

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HORIZONTAL WELLS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ALBERTA; CANADA; CIRCULAR STATISTICS; STRESS PATTERNS; TECTONIC STRESS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATABASE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS;

ALBERTA; ALBERTA BASIN; CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84914124103     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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