Seismicity pattern and style of seismic faulting at the eastern borderfault of the southern Rhine Graben

Tectonophysics

Volumn 275, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 41-69

  Bonjer, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brittle plastic transition; Focal mechanisms; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE/PLASTIC TRANSITION; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; RIFT; SEISMICITY;

EUROPE, RHINE GRABEN;

EID: 0031428737     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00015-2     Document Type: Article

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