The World Stress Map database release 2016: Crustal stress pattern across scales

CASMI - A visualization tool for the World Stress Map database

The World Stress Map (WSM) project has compiled a global database of quality-ranked data records on the contemporary tectonic stresses in the Earth’s crust. The WSM 2005 database release contains approximately 16 000 data records from different types of stress indicators such as earthquake focal mechanisms solutions, well bore breakouts, hydraulic fracturing and overcoring measurements, as well...

From leaf to forests: Measuring vegetation water stress across scales

Vegetation water stress significantly affects agricultural and tropical forest canopies. Water shortages in crops influence plant water dynamics, reduces primary production and might eventually lead to plant death. Tropical forests are essential part of global carbon and water cycle. Continuing drying of e.g. the Amazon rainforest might accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changi...

The Australian Stress Map

Knowledge of the in situ stress field of the Australian continent has increased greatly since compilation of the World Stress Map in 1992, principally by analysis of borehole breakouts and drilling-induced tensile fractures in petroleum wells. Stress orientations are variable across the Australian continent as a whole. However, within 15 of 16 individual stress provinces defined in the Australi...

Drilling Induced Core Fractures and Crustal Stress

Drilling induced core fractures, usually ignored in standard core logging, contain substantial information on the directions of horizontal stresses and the relative magnitudes of the three principal stresses. These fractures have a variety of shapes, variously referred to as petal, petal-centreline, saddle, cup, and scallop. Surprisingly, the morphology of the fractures suggests they are produc...

Relating Crustal Structure and Stress Indicators in the Azores Islands