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Stress in the Earth

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  • © 1977

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Editors:
  1. Max Wyss

    1. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics (CCRG)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-1
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  2. Principal Horizontal Stresses in Southern Africa

    • N. C. Gay
    Pages 3-10

  3. Central Europe: Active or Residual Tectonic Stresses

    • Gerhard Greiner, J. Henning Illies
    Pages 11-26

  4. A Mechanism for Strain Relaxation of Barre Granite: Opening of Microfractures

    • Terry Engelder, Marc L. Sbar, Robert Kranz
    Pages 27-40

  5. The Relationship Between In Situ Strain Relaxation and Outcrop Fractures in the Potsdam Sandstone, Alexandria Bay, New York

    • Terry Engelder, Marc L. Sbar
    Pages 41-55

  6. Reflections on Measurement of Residual Stress in Rock

    • Terry E. Tullis
    Pages 57-68

  7. The Stress State Near Spanish Peaks, Colorado Determined From a Dike Pattern

    • Otto H. Muller, David D. Pollard
    Pages 69-86

  8. Volcanoes as Possible Indicators of Tectonic Stress Orientation—Aleutians and Alaska

    • Kazuaki Nakamura, Klaus H. Jacob, John N. Davies
    Pages 87-112

  9. Stress and Shear Fracture (Fault) Patterns Resulting from a Suite of Complicated Boundary Conditions with Applications to the Wind River Mountains

    • Gary Couples
    Pages 113-133

  10. Preliminary Stress Measurements in Central California Using the Hydraulic Fracturing Technique

    • Mark D. Zoback, John H. Healy, John C. Roller
    Pages 135-152

  11. Crustal Stress in Iceland

    • Bezalel C. Haimson, Barry Voight
    Pages 153-190

  12. Shear and Tension Hydraulic Fractures in Low Permeability Rocks

    • P. Solberg, D. Lockner, J. Byerlee
    Pages 191-198

  13. Stress in the Lithosphere: Inferences from Steady State Flow of Rocks

    • Jean-Claude C. Mercier, Douglas A. Anderson, Neville L. Carter
    Pages 199-226

  14. Theory and Applicability of a Recrystallized Grain Size Paleopiezometer

    • Robert J. Twiss
    Pages 227-244

  15. State of Stress in the Lithosphere: Inferences from the Flow Laws of Olivine

    • Stephen H. Kirby
    Pages 245-258

  16. On Correlation Between Seismic Velocity Anisotropy and Stresses In Situ

    • I. A. Turchaninov, V. I. Panin, G. A. Markov, V. I. Pavlovskii, N. V. Sharov, G. A. Ivanov
    Pages 259-265

  17. Simultaneous Monitoring of Stress and Strain in Massive Rock

    • Michael T. Gladwin
    Pages 267-274

  18. Stress Distribution near Lake Jocassee, South Carolina

    • Pradeep Talwani
    Pages 275-281

  19. Focal Mechanism of Earthquakes in the Kamchatka—Commander Region and Heterogeneities of the Active Seismic Zone

    • Vyacheslav M. Zobin, Irina G. Simbireva
    Pages 283-299

  20. Implications of Stress-Drop Models of Earthquakes for the Inversion of Stress Drop from Seismic Observations

    • Raul Madariaga
    Pages 301-316
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    Max Wyss

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