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Evolution Of The Stress And Strain Fields In The Eastern Cordillera, Colombia, Obi Egbue, James N. Kellogg
Evolution Of The Stress And Strain Fields In The Eastern Cordillera, Colombia, Obi Egbue, James N. Kellogg
James N Kellogg
This work integrates stress data from Global Positioning System measurements and earthquake focal mechanism solutions, with new borehole breakout and natural fracture system data to better understand the complex interactions between the major tectonic plates in northwestern South America and to examine how the stress regime in the Eastern Cordillera and the Llanos foothills in Colombia has evolved through time. The dataset was used to generate an integrated stress map of the northern Andes and to propose a model for stress evolution in the Eastern Cordillera. In the Cordillera, the primary present-day maximum principal stress direction is WNW-ESE to NW-SE, …