Spannungsfeld der Erdkruste - Einzelansicht

This course aims to give an overview to the state of stress in the Earth’s crust and its application to local and regional tectonics. The first part of this course is the very foundation of rock mechanics, and introduces mechanical stress, fracture criteria and simple crustal stress models. The second part deals with stress measuring methods in practice today and is divided logically into borehole and core-based methods. Naturally, the more commonly accepted methods like overcoring, hydraulic fracturing, and borehole breakouts, are given added emphasis. The third part describes stress profiles in the Earth’s crust obtained in recent international field projects to investigate earthquake ruptures and fracture processes in energy technology context (geologic repositories and geothermal energy). Local stress data from specific wellbores are related to regional tectonic stresses and the plate tectonics.

Zang A, Stephansson O (2010) Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust. Springer- Verlag. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8443-0