Quantifying borehole shapes in IODP Holes U1378A and U1379A from Density and Ultrasonic LWD Measurements

Lead PI: Dr. Alberto Malinverno
Unit Affiliation: Marine and Polar Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
May 2011 - February 2014
Inactive
Central America ; Costa Rica
Project Type: Research

DESCRIPTION: The project will analyze logging-while drilling (LWD) azimuthal measurements to determine best-fit orientation of borehole breakouts and estimate directional uncertainty.

SPONSOR: Consortium for Ocean Leadership
ORIGINATING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
FUNDED AMOUNT: $15,000
RESEARCH TEAM: Saneatsu Saito
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS: Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
PUBLICATIONS: Malinverno, A., and Saito, S., Borehole breakout orientation from LWD data (IODP Exp. 334) and the present stress state in the Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project transect, Abstract T34C-07, 2013 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec. 2013.

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