Modeling of Stress-deformation Relationships in a Collision Belt: Taiwan

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 447-465

  Hu, Jyr Ching ^a   Angelier, Jacques ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Geological discontinuities; Mechanical decoupling; Numerical simulations; Stress and velocity fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001603803     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.1996.7.4.447(ACCT)     Document Type: Article

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