Variations of stress directions in the western Alpine arc

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 438-448

  Eva, E ^a   Solarino, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Fault plane solutions (FPS); In situ stress; Seismotectonics; Stress distribution; Stress measurement; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

IN SITU STRESS; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS MEASUREMENT;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032439303     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00649.x     Document Type: Article

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