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Data Publication

SAFOD borehole trajectory data in absolute coordinates (UTM) and in coordinates relative to drilling platform

SAFOD

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ

(2007)

Descriptions

SAFOD is motivated by the need to answer fundamental questions about the physical and chemical processes controlling faulting and earthquake generation within a major plate-bounding fault. SAFOD will drill and instrument an inclined borehole across the San Andreas Faultspan> Zone to a depth of 3.2 km, targeting a repeating microearthquake source. The drill site is located west of the vertical San Andreas Fault on a segment of the fault that moves through a combination of aseismic creep and repeating microearthquakes. It lies at the extreme northern end of the rupture zone of the 1966, Magnitude 6 Parkfield earthquake, the most recent in a series of events that have ruptured the fault five times since 1857. The Parkfield region is the most comprehensively instrumented section of a fault anywhere in the world, and has been the focus of intensive study for the past two decades. This data set contains SAFOD borehole trajectory data.

Keywords

Originally assigned keywords

San Andreas Fault-Zone Observatory at Depth

Land based

Azimuth

Dog Leg Severity

Easting (Departure)

Easting UTM NAD27

Inclination

Northing (Latitude)

Northing UTM NAD27

True Vertical Depth

Vertical Section

MSL enriched keywords

Inferred deformation behavior

microphysical deformation mechanism

time-dependent mechanism

tectonic plate boundary

transcurrent tectonic plate boundary

tectonic deformation structure

tectonic fault

MSL enriched sub domains i

rock and melt physics

Source

http://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/SDDB/showshort.php?id=escidoc:76157

Source publisher

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ

DOI

10.1594/gfz.sddb.1081

Creators

SAFOD

Citation

SAFOD. (2007). SAFOD borehole trajectory data in absolute coordinates (UTM) and in coordinates relative to drilling platform [Data set]. Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/GFZ.SDDB.1081

Dates

Issued:

2007-08-02