Observations of borehole breakouts and tensile wall-fractures in deviated boreholes: A technique to constrain in situ stress and rock strength

35th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, USRMS 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 319-325

  Peška, Pavel ^a,b   Zoback, Mark D ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

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