Stress transfer in the Storegga area, offshore mid-Norway

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 161-170

  Atakan, Kuvvet ^a   Ojeda, Anibal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b SERVICIO GEOLÓGICO COLOMBIANO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Earthquake triggering; Storegga; Stress transfer; Submarine slide

Indexed keywords

COULOMB FAILURE; FAULT-PLANES; STRESS TRANSFER; SUBMARINE SLIDES;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRESS ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

EARTHQUAKE; STRESS FIELD; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; STOREGGA SLIDE; WORLD;

EID: 14744298329     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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