It was called "Greasing the Plates" because it caused vast amounts of seismic disturbance.
Injection Induced Earthquakes at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal: (click on)
[ This reference is extensive and has decades of citations of this phenomena. It is very well documented. The seismic distrubance of drilling where liquid mixes with lithosphere is a fact and not fiction with decades of PROOF.]
There are over one hundred references cited at this on-line cite alone.
Oh, yeah, by the way, the 'plates' are in reference to the techtonic plates. Hm. In reality it is more extensive than that. It is a disruption of rock. A lot of it sedimentary rock just like the kind found on the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico. It's a geological 'thing.'
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Department of the Army, Summary History of Rocky Mountain Arsenal, (manuscript-- available at the Western History Collection, Denver Public Library) (1967-1980)
David M. Evans, The Denver Area Earthquakes and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Disposal Well, 3 The Mountain Geologist 23 (1966). [Reprinted in Engineering Case Histories No. 8, 25, Geological Society of America (1970)]
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Ben F. Rummerfield, A. Peter Olsons and D. B. Hoover, Seismic Survey in the Region of Recent Earthquake Activity near Denver, Colorado, 33 Geophysics 915 (1968).
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