Stress Map Germany 2016

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The stress map of Germany shows the orientation of the current maximum horizontal stress (SHmax) in the earth's crust. Assuming that the vertical stress (SV) is a principal stress, SHmax defines the orientation of the 3D stress tensor; the minimum horizontal stress Shmin is than perpendicular to SHmax. In the stress map the SHmax orientations are represented as lines of different lengths. The length of the line is a measure of the quality of data and the symbol shows the stress indicator and the color the stress regime. Data with E-Quality are shown without additional information as dots on the map. The stress data are freely available and part of the World Stress Map (WSM) project. For more information about the data and criteria of data analysis and quality mapping are plotted along the WSM website at http://www.world-stress-map.org.The German version of the World Stress Map Germany is available via http://doi.org/10.5880/WSM.Germany2016.

The World Stress Map (WSM) is a global compilation of information on the crustal present-day stress field. It is a collaborative project between academia and industry that aims to characterize the stress pattern and to understand the stress sources. It commenced in 1986 as a project of the International Lithosphere Program under the leadership of Mary-Lou Zoback. From 1995-2008 it was a project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities headed first by Karl Fuchs and then by Friedemann Wenzel. Since 2009 the WSM is maintained at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and since 2012 the WSM is a member of the ICSU World Data System. All stress information is analysed and compiled in a standardized format and quality-ranked for reliability and comparability on a global scale.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5880/WSM.Germany2016_en
Related Identifier http://www.world-stress-map.org
Related Identifier http://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/faces/viewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=escidoc:1361435
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.023
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.2003.212.01.07
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5880/WSM.2016.001
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5880/WSM.Germany2016
Metadata Access http://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:6228
Provenance
Creator Reiter, Karsten ORCID logo; Heidbach, Oliver ORCID logo; Müller, Birgit; Reinecker, John; Röckel, Thomas
Publisher GFZ Data Services
Contributor Reiter, Karsten; Heidbach, Oliver; Müller, Birgit; Reinecker, John; Röckel, Thomas; GFZ German Research Centre of Geosciences
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC BY 4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact Reiter, Karsten (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/pdf
Size 9901520 Bytes; 1 Files
Discipline Geophysics
Spatial Coverage (5.000W, 46.000S, 16.000E, 56.000N); Germany