Contemporaneous extension and compression in the Northern Apennines from earthquake fault-plane solutions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 368-388

  Frepoli, A ^a   Amato, A ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Focal mechanisms; Northern Apennines; Seismicity; Stress distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; EARTHQUAKE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT PLANE SOLUTION; FOCAL MECHANISM;

ITALY, APENNINES;

EID: 0030988881     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb01589.x     Document Type: Article

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