Effect of viscosity structure on fault potential and stress orientations in eastern Canada

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 365-382

  Wu, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Faulting; Glacial rebound; Mantle viscosity; Seismotectonics; Stress distribution

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; MANTLE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; SEISMICITY; STRESS; VISCOSITY;

CANADA;

EID: 0031474835     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb05653.x     Document Type: Article

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