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Hydraulic fracturing stress measurements have been performed in a limestone quarry near the Hohenzollern-Graben, a fault structure in SW Germany. The values of the two horizontal principal stresses were 24 and 15 bars at a depth of 25 m. The magnitude and the direction of the stresses agree with the results obtained by door-stopper measurements at the same location and the direction of the maximum horizontal principal stress derived from fault plane solutions of shallow earthquakes of this tectonic active area.
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In der Nähe des Hohenzollern-Grabens/Schwäbische Alb/SW-Deutschland wurden absolute Spannungsmessungen nach der Methode des Hydraulic Fracturing durchgeführt. Die Bestimmung der beiden horizontalen Hauptspannungen lieferte Werte von 24 und 15 bar für eine Tiefe von 25 m. Als Richtung für die größte Hauptspannung ergab sich N30°W. Diese Werte stimmen sowohl mit den Ergebnissen von ‘Doorstopper’-Messungen, die an der gleichen Stelle vorgenommen wurden, als auch mit den Ergebnissen überein, die sich aud Erdbeben dieses tektonisch aktiven Gebietes ableiten lassen
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Rummel, F., Jung, R. (1975). Hydraulic Fracturing Stress Measurements near the Hohenzollern-Graben-Structure, SW Germany. In: Wyss, M. (eds) Earthquake Prediction and Rock Mechanics. Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics (CCRG). Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5534-1_28
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