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Data description paper
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13 Dec 2022
Data description paper |
| 13 Dec 2022
| 13 Dec 2022
In situ stress database of the greater Ruhr region (Germany) derived from hydrofracturing tests and borehole logs
Michal Kruszewski
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Fraunhofer IEG, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems IEG, Am Hochschulcampus 1 IEG, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Institute of Geology, Mineralogy, and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Gerd Klee
Solexperts GmbH (former MeSy GmbH), Meesmannstraße 49, 44807 Bochum, Germany
Thomas Niederhuber
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Applied Geosciences Division of Technical Petrophysics
Campus Süd, Adenauerring 20b, Geb. 50.40, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Oliver Heidbach
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Technical University Berlin, Institute for Applied Geosciences, Ernst-Reuter Platz 1, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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Based on 10-year observations of ground temperatures in seven deep boreholes in Gen’he, Mangui, and Yituli’he, a wide range of mean annual ground temperatures at the depth of 20 m (−2.83 to −0.49 ℃) and that of annual maximum thawing depth (about 1.1 to 7.0 m) have been revealed. This study demonstrates that most trajectories of permafrost changes in Northeast China are ground warming and permafrost degradation, except that the shallow permafrost is cooling in Yituli’he.
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This paper presents the release of large swaths of airborne geophysical data (including gravity, magnetics, and radar) acquired between 1994 and 2020 over Antarctica by the British Antarctic Survey. These include a total of 64 datasets from 24 different surveys, amounting to >30 % of coverage over the Antarctic Ice Sheet. This paper discusses how these data were acquired and processed and presents the methods used to standardize and publish the data in an interactive and reproducible manner.
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The authors assemble an in situ stress magnitude and orientation database based on 429 hydrofracturing tests that were carried out in six coal mines and two coal bed methane boreholes between 1986 and 1995 within the greater Ruhr region (Germany). Our study summarises the results of the extensive in situ stress test campaign and assigns quality to each data record using the established quality ranking schemes of the World Stress Map project.
The authors assemble an in situ stress magnitude and orientation database based on 429...
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