Recent stress field of the Sinai subplate region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 304, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 385-403

  Badawy, Ahmed ^a   Horváth, Ferenc ^b  

^a National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics   (Egypt)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Focal mechanisms; In situ; Interpolation; Sinai subplate; Stress field

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE MOTION; STRESS FIELD;

EGYPT;

EID: 0344549846     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00271-6     Document Type: Article

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