A numerical model of the Hellenic subduction zone: Active stress field and sea-level changes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2485-2488

  Giunchi, C ^a,c   Kiratzi, A ^b   Sabadini, R ^a,c   Louvari, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Sezione Geofisica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEA LEVEL; TECTONICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SIMULATION; STRESS CONCENTRATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACTIVE STRESS; FOCAL MECHANISM; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE VELOCITY; TECTONIC UPLIFT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TECTONICS;

ACTIVE STRESS FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGES; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; SLAB PULL; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

AEGEAN SEA, HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 0030235958     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02166     Document Type: Article

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