Fig. 3From: The crustal stress field of Germany: a refined predictionTop (a) and side view (b) of the extended model box used to achieve an initial stress state. c Best-fit of 29 virtual wells (blue curves) and blue dots in a in comparison to calculated curves (red) for a Young’s modulus of 30 and 70 GPa based on Sheorey (1994). There is a change of the scale of the depth axis below 7000 m TVDBack to article page