2022
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12660
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Characterising the contemporary stress orientations near an active continental rifting zone: A case study from the Moatize Basin, central Mozambique

Abstract: This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of the present-day stress from boreholes near an active continental rifting zone in the Moatize Basin, Mozambique.The state of present-day stress in this area that is located ca. 100 km away from the Eastern African Rift System (EARS) is poorly understood, and most of our knowledge is from earthquake focal mechanisms that provide stress information from the deeper part of the lithosphere, and to a lesser extent from surface geological features in the Malawi … Show more

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“…1). Although one sees strain rotations across distances o <100 km in East Arica (Morely, 2010;Rajabi et al, 2022;Williams et al, 2019), the available data nevertheless suggests that in the bigger picture, signifcant strain rotation (i.e. nearly 180 • rotation) within the San Plate exists.…”
Section: Fault-pan Geometrymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1). Although one sees strain rotations across distances o <100 km in East Arica (Morely, 2010;Rajabi et al, 2022;Williams et al, 2019), the available data nevertheless suggests that in the bigger picture, signifcant strain rotation (i.e. nearly 180 • rotation) within the San Plate exists.…”
Section: Fault-pan Geometrymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over the last decade, a great increase in high-resolution image logs in various basins across the world, provides the opportunity for detailed observation of such small-scale stress rotations in the vicinity of faults at borehole scales (Lin et al, 2010;Rajabi et al, 2022Rajabi et al, , 2024Sahara et al, 2014;Talukdar et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2023). Figure 1a shows an example of stress reorientation of approximately 90 • indicated by borehole breakouts (Bell and Gough, 1979;Heidbach et al, 2018) in the vicinity of and attributed to a fault, which has been interpreted in an electrical image log in the Surat Basin of Queensland, Australia (Rajabi et al, 2017a).…”
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confidence: 99%