Fractal characteristics of active normal faults: An example of the eastern Gulf of Corinth, Greece

Tectonophysics

Volumn 308, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 263-274

  Koukouvelas, Ioannis K ^a   Asimakopoulos, Marios ^a   Doutsos, Theodoros T ^a  

^a Phys Mar Geol Geodynamics D ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Basins; Fault linkage; Fault's nucleation points; Fractal analysis; Greece

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMICITY;

GREECE;

EID: 0032713191     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00087-6     Document Type: Article

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