An inverse method to determine the optimal stress from imperfect fault data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 387, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 205-215

  Shan, Yehua ^a   Lin, Ge ^b   Li, Zian ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Fault slip data; Sigma space; Slip sense; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; FAULT SLIP; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 11144322746     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.06.017     Document Type: Article

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