A direct approach to the determination of regional stress fields: A case study of the West European, North American, and Australian platforms

Izvestiya - Physics of the Solid Earth

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 636-652

  Mukhamediev, Sh A ^a   Galybin, A N ^b  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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