New maps reveal safe locations for wastewater injection

New stress maps of Texas and Oklahoma, with black lines indicating stress orientation. Blue-green colors indicate regions of extension in the crust, while yellow-orange areas are indicative of crustal compression. (Image credit: Jens-Erik Lund Snee) Stanford geophysicists have compiled the most detailed maps yet of the geologic forces controlling the locations, types and magnitudes of […]

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