Space variations of stress along the Tyrrhenian Wadati-Benioff zone

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 667-688

  Bruno, G ^a   Guerra, I ^a   Moretti, A ^a   Neri, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deep seismicity; Fault plane solutions; Stress distribution; Subduction; Tyrrhenian Sea

Indexed keywords

BENIOFF ZONE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS; SUBDUCTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 0033377401     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050318     Document Type: Article

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