Elastic stress relaxation: A mechanism for opposite sense of secondary faulting with respect to a major fault

Tectonophysics

Volumn 257, Issue 2-4 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 175-188

  Du, Y ^a   Aydin, A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT DISPLACEMENT; SECONDARY FRACTURE;

EID: 0029773212     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(96)00017-0     Document Type: Article

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