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Intraplate Stress Orientations from Alberta Oil‐Wells

Bell et al., 1981

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5544314122110370903
Author
Bell J
Gough D
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Evolution of the Earth

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Many oil‐wells in Alberta are noncircular as a result of spalling of their walls. Such break‐ outs occur over a wide depth range covering the stratigraphic column from Devonian through Cretaceous, and in siltstones, sandstones, limestones, dolomites and one shale …
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