Estimation of Minimum Principal Stress from an Extended Leak-off Test Onboard the Chikyu Drilling Vessel and Suggestions for Future Test Procedures
To understand the physics of faulting and rupture propagation for the great M8-class Nankai earthquakes that recur approximately every 100 years, a comprehensive drilling project is underway: the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE; Tobin and Kinoshita, 2007), which is part of the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2008-07-01
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Series: | Scientific Drilling |
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Online Access: | http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd6_08.pdf#page=43 |