Real-time drilling mud gas monitoring records seismic damage zone from the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake

Tectonophysics

Volumn 639, Issue , 2015, Pages 109-117

  Gong, Zheng ^a,b   Li, Haibing ^a,b   Lao, Changling ^c,d   Tang, Lijun ^c   Luo, Liqiang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory for Continental Tectonics and Dynamics   (China)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR GEOANALYSIS   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric distribution; Fractures; Geophysical logs; Real time drilling mud gas; WFSD 1

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; BORING; CARBON DIOXIDE; FAULTING; FRACTURE; GASES; LITHOLOGY; OIL WELL DRILLING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRESSES; WAVE PROPAGATION; WELL DRILLING;

ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; FRACTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOPHYSICAL LOGS; MECHANIC PROPERTIES; REAL TIME DRILLING; SCIENTIFIC DRILLING; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; WFSD-1;

EARTHQUAKES;

BOREHOLE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; DRILLING; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; FOOTWALL; FRACTURE; HELIUM; METHANE; P-WAVE; RADON; SEISMICITY; SHALE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SILTSTONE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84922336065     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.11.017     Document Type: Article

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