Fault-slip directions in central and southern Greece measured from striated and corrugated fault planes: Comparison with focal mechanism and geodetic data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B10, 2000, Pages 23443-23462

  Roberts, Gerald P ^a   Ganas, Athanassios ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Remote Sensing   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; FOCAL MECHANISM; GPS;

GREECE;

EID: 0033677359     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900440     Document Type: Article

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