T52C:
The State of Stress in the Crust from Fracture and Failure to Plate Tectonics II

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Session ID#: 16522

Session Description:
With the passing of the 50 year anniversary of plate tectonics it is timely to review our understanding of the state of the stress in the Earth with an eye both on traditional approaches for quantifying the stress tensor as well as new approaches that have recently been developed to describing the stress state in the Earth’s crust. Tentative discussion topic include the plate-scale background state of stress, evaluation of stress concentrates (e.g., critically stressed faults), induced seismicity, and novel methods for evaluating the stress tensor using borehole imaging.  Presentations related to machine learning as it applies to calculating the stress tensor in the earth at reservoir scales are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  David D Coblentz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Conveners:  Thomas A Dewers1, Paul A Johnson2 and Mathew D Ingraham1, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States(2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  David D Coblentz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Paul A Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
Index Terms:

3909 Elasticity and anelasticity [MINERAL PHYSICS]
8164 Stresses: crust and lithosphere [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8168 Stresses: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Lithospheric Stress and Geodynamics: History, Accomplishments and Challenges (Invited) (117871)
Randall M Richardson, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Quantifying the heterogeneity of the stress field derived from local and global borehole data (124402)
Martin Schoenball, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Nicholas Christopher Davatzes, Temple Univ-Geol, Earth & Env, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Reconstruction of Topography and Lithosphere Dynamics Within the Basin and Range of Western North America Since 36 Ma (192357)
William E Holt1, Alireza Bahadori2, Lijun Liu3, Lucy M Flesch4, Gavin Piccione5, Troy Rasbury5, Catherine Badgley6, Tara Smiley7 and Rubin Smith8, (1)Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (2)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Geology, Urbana, United States, (4)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (6)University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, United States, (7)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY, United States
A Revised Stress Map of the Conterminous United States and Causal Links Between 3-D Density Structure and Intraplate Seismicity (178325)
William Brower Levandowski, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, Weisen Shen, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Richard W Briggs, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Oliver Salz Boyd, USGS, Golden, CO, United States
Probing Earth's State of Stress (Invited) (117792)
Andrew A Delorey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Security Earth Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States, Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Paul A Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States and David D Coblentz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Intermediate Stress and Failure of Sedimentary Rock (Invited) (141195)
Joseph Labuz, University of Minnesota Twin Cities - UMinn, Minneapolis, United States and Roman Y Makhnenko, University of Illinois, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Critically Tapered Wedges and Critical State Soil Mechanics: Porosity-based Pressure Prediction in the Nankai Accretionary Prism. (141970)
Peter B Flemings, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and Demian M Saffer, Penn State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Stress, deformation and failure associated with salt-sheet emplacement (150511)
Maria A Nikolinakou1, Mahdi Heidari1, Michael R Hudec2 and Peter B Flemings3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States

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