JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 99, NO.

B1, PAGES 707-710, JANUARY 10, 1994

Correction to "Inversion of borehole breakout orientation data"

by Wei Qian and Laust B0rsting Pealersen
W. Qian, K. S. Crossing,,3 L. B. Pedersen,4 M. C. Dentith, and R. D. List 3

In the paper "Inversion of Borehole Breakout Orientation that are corrected here. The results and thus the inferences
Data" by Wei Qian and Laust B0rsting Pedersen (Journal of drawn from the paper should change accordingly.
Geophysical Research, 96(B12), 20,093-20,107, 1991), there In the paper and in this correction, the compressive stress
are a number of errors concerning the definition of stresses is defined as positive. The errors in the paper are as follows:

Table 1. Synthetic Borehole Deviating From the Vertical by an Angle b and

With an Azimuth of/

Measurements

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

b, deg 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
,deg 0 -5 10 -15 20 -25 30 -35 40 -45 50 -55 60
Strike-slip 20 20 20 22 20 26 17 30 8 32 -4 30 -13
Normal 20 20 21 25 20 33 5 39 -24 38 -28 32 -25
Thrust 20 20 19 15 20 6 24 -8 31 -27 39 -46 49

The last three rows show the correspondingbreakout direction calculated for the three
different stress regimes.

Table 2. Analysis of Test Data Sets

Nonlinear
Bounds
Linear Error
Model Estimates Upper Lower
Case I (Strike-Slip)
6760 1796 0.32
ml 20-+0.77 21.08 18.97 -0.96 0.28 -1 x 10-3
m2 1.0-+0.02 1.07 0.94 -0.28 -0.96 -6 x 10-4
m3 0.5-----
1.76 0.98 * 1 x 10-3 3 x 10-4 --1.00
Case 2 (Normal)
27,779 5141 6
ml 20-+0.83 21.0 18.9 -0.18 0.98 10-2
m2 0.8 -+ 0.15 0.97 0.72 -0.91 -0.16 -0.37
m3 0.6 + 0.37 0.95 * 0.36 0.07 -0.93
Case 3 (Thrust)
11,767 2953 2.7
m 200-
+ 1.06 21.00 19.00 -0.05 1.00 -4 x 10-3
m2 2.0 -+ 0.47 * * -0.63 -0.03 -0.77
m3 1.8 -+ 0.37 * * 0.77 0.03 -0.63
A, A22,
andA denoteeigenvalues
withcorresponding
eigenvectors
in thecolumn
below.
*The model parametersare unconstrainedby column below.

1Continental
Geoscience
Division,Geological
Surveyof Canada,
Ottawa.
2Department
of GeologyandGeophysics,
Universityof Western
Australia, Nedlands.
3Department
of Mathematics,
Universityof WesternAustralia,
Nedlands.
4Department
of Solid Earth Physics,Universityof Uppsala,
Uppsala, Sweden.

Published in 1994 by the American Geophysical Union.

Paper number 93JB02512.

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0 0 0 0 0 LO --
0 0 0 LO --

i i i i i

0 0

o E '=

o '

o. I
 QIANET AL.: CORRECTION 709

Fit of Breakout Direction

30.0

25.0

'.- 20.0

15.0

10.0

5.0

0.0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Data Number

Figure
8. Datafitintheinversion
withsolid
linerepresenting
modelresponse.
Thecompiled
datafrom
wells1,2,3,and4aremarked
bysquares,diamonds,
triangles,
andinverted
triangles
respectively.
Error
barsshown arescaled
according
tothefitofthemodel.
Totalnumber
ofdatapoints
is50.Thedashed
line
represents
model
response
ofm2 = 1.4andthedotted
linerepresents
m2 = 0.9while
fixing
m and
m3
at their values in the minimum solution.

MinimumObjective Function
1.9

1.8--

1.5--

1.4 I

1.3--

1.2--

ABOVE lOO

80- lOO

65- 8o

55- 65

50- 55
0.9 48- 5o
..

BELOW 48
0.8

0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1
m3
Figure
10. Contour
plotoftheobjective
function
(Q0)withrespect
tom2andm3,while
allowing
m
varysoastominimize
theobjective
function.
Thelightest
arearepresents
the68%
confidence
area
with
Gaussian
statistics.
Thesampling
ratein theparameter
space
fortheplotis0.02.
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Table 4. Analysis of the Inverted Data Set at the Minimum Solution

Nonlinear Bounds
Linear Error
Model Estimates Upper Lower ,2 ,22
38325 114 3.8
m 18.4 -+ 0.3 18.7 18.0 -0.99 0.01 -0.002
m2 1.2 _+0.2 1.05 * 0.01 0.97 -0.25
m3 0.6 - 0.5 0.98 0.0 0.002 0.25 0.97

Notations are the same as in Table 2.

*The model parameters are unconstrained by the data.

1. Equation (3) should read the conclusions drawn from these tables and figures should
be changed accordingly. In the section on "inversion of
Siljan breakout direction", the Q0 is first found to be 11.3,
1 0 0 thenthedatavariances
scalefactorshould
bef2 = 47/Q0=
4.2.
ra=RtrRh; Rh= 0 cosv -sin v . (3)
0 sin v cos v
Acknowledgments. Larry Mastin is thanked for discussionson our
Equation (5) should be modifications to the equations and confirming the calculations
involved in this correction.
trzz----Sll - 2p(S22- S33) cos 2a - 4pS23sin 2a
Reference
rraa ----S22+ S33- 2(S22 - S33) cos 2a - 4S23 sin 2a
(5) Mastin, L., Effect of borehole deviation on breakout orientations, J.
Geophys. Res., 93, 9187-9195, 1988.
'za = 2(S13 cos cr- S12 sin a)
K. S. Crossing and R. D. List, Department of Geology and
Equation (A1) of Mastin [ 1988] should also be corrected as Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western
above. But the results derived from that paper are correct. Australia 6009, Australia.
3. Equation (6) should be L. B. Pedersen, Department of Solid Earth Physics, University of
Uppsala, S-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.
W. Qian, Continental GeosciencesDivision, Geological Survey of
; __-- 2 ]1/2)
1{rrzz q_rr q-[(rrzz- rr a)2q-4rz, (6) Canada, 1 Observatory Cresent, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0Y3.

After correcting these three sign errors, Tables 1, 2, and 4

and Figures 2, 8, and 10 become as shown. Consequently, (Received August 23, 1993- accepted September 1, 1993.)