Simplified analysis of horizontal stresses in a buttressed forearc sliver at an oblique subduction zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2021-2024

  Wang, Kelin ^a,b  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

ARC PARALLEL COMPRESSION; BODY FORCE; BUTTRESSES FOREARC SLIVER; CASCADIA FOREARC; DIRECTION OF PLATE CONVERGENCE; HORIZONTAL ANALYSIS; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION ZONE; OBLIQUELY CONVERGENT MARGINS; PLAN VIEW TWO DIMENSIONAL ELASTIC MODELS; STRESS FIELD PREDICTION;

ROCKS;

BUTTRESSED FOREARC SLIVER; HORIZONTAL STRESS; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION;

EID: 0030210518     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02067     Document Type: Article

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