Stress field at a transcurrent plate boundary in the presence of frictional heat production at depth

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-201

  Dragoni, M ^a   Harabaglia, P ^b   Mongelli, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fault dislocation; Frictional heat production rheology; Stress field

Indexed keywords

FAULT DISLOCATION; FRICTIONAL HEAT; PLATE BOUNDARY; RHEOLOGY; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 0031422292     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050072     Document Type: Article

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