Tectonic significance of fault-slip data

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 881-888

  Gapais, Denis ^a   Cobbold, Peter R ^a   Bourgeois, Olivier ^a   Rouby, Delphine ^a   De Urreiztieta, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONES; FAULT-SLIP DATA;

DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; TENSORS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT SLIP; KINEMATICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TECTONICS;

EID: 0034130049     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(00)00015-8     Document Type: Article

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