Stress in the Earth

Front Matter....Pages i-1
Principal Horizontal Stresses in Southern Africa....Pages 3-10
Central Europe: Active or Residual Tectonic Stresses....Pages 11-26
A Mechanism for Strain Relaxation of Barre Granite: Opening of Microfractures....Pages 27-40
The Relationship Between In Situ Strain Relaxation and Outcrop Fractures in the Potsdam Sandstone, Alexandria Bay, New York....Pages 41-55
Reflections on Measurement of Residual Stress in Rock....Pages 57-68
The Stress State Near Spanish Peaks, Colorado Determined From a Dike Pattern....Pages 69-86
Volcanoes as Possible Indicators of Tectonic Stress Orientation—Aleutians and Alaska....Pages 87-112
Stress and Shear Fracture (Fault) Patterns Resulting from a Suite of Complicated Boundary Conditions with Applications to the Wind River Mountains....Pages 113-133
Preliminary Stress Measurements in Central California Using the Hydraulic Fracturing Technique....Pages 135-152
Crustal Stress in Iceland....Pages 153-190
Shear and Tension Hydraulic Fractures in Low Permeability Rocks....Pages 191-198
Stress in the Lithosphere: Inferences from Steady State Flow of Rocks....Pages 199-226
Theory and Applicability of a Recrystallized Grain Size Paleopiezometer....Pages 227-244
State of Stress in the Lithosphere: Inferences from the Flow Laws of Olivine....Pages 245-258
On Correlation Between Seismic Velocity Anisotropy and Stresses In Situ ....Pages 259-265
Simultaneous Monitoring of Stress and Strain in Massive Rock....Pages 267-274
Stress Distribution near Lake Jocassee, South Carolina....Pages 275-281
Focal Mechanism of Earthquakes in the Kamchatka—Commander Region and Heterogeneities of the Active Seismic Zone....Pages 283-299
Implications of Stress-Drop Models of Earthquakes for the Inversion of Stress Drop from Seismic Observations....Pages 301-316
Apparent Stress and Stress Drop for Intraplate Earthquakes and Tectonic Stress in the Plates....Pages 317-331
Source Parameters for the January 1975 Brawley — Imperial Valley Earthquake Swarm....Pages 333-355
Anomalous Seismicity prior to Rock Bursts: Implications for Earthquake Prediction....Pages 357-374
Seismicity Gap near Oaxaca, Southern Mexico as a Probable Precursor to a Large Earthquake....Pages 375-385
Kinetic Shear Resistance, Fluid Pressures and Radiation Efficiency During Seismic Faulting....Pages 387-400
A Viscoelastic Relaxation Model for Post-Seismic Deformation from the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906....Pages 401-411
Stress Accumulation and Release on the San Andreas Fault....Pages 413-427
Shear Stress on the Base of a Lithospheric Plate....Pages 429-439
Earthquake Stress Drops, Ambient Tectonic Stresses and Stresses That Drive Plate Motions....Pages 441-458