Reproducing the velocity and stress fields in the Aegean region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2087-2090

  Cianetti, S ^a   Gasperini, P ^a,b   Boccaletti, M ^a   Giunchi, C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODESY; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; DEFORMATION; LOCKS (FASTENERS); STRESSES; TRANSPIRATION;

DEFORMATION PATTERN; FAULT KINEMATICS;

TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; SATELLITE DATA; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC ROTATION; VELOCITY FIELD;

GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA, AEGEAN SEA; TURKEY, ANATOLIA;

ARABIAN PLATES; DEFORMATION PATTERN; FAULT KINEMATICS; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; MODEL DEFORMATIONS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; NORTH-WESTERN GREECE; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

EID: 0031200880     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01938     Document Type: Article

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