Stress variability and brittle tectonic structures

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 103-127

  Caputo, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deformation; Faults; Joints; Partitioning; Stress field

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 16244417200     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.11.005     Document Type: Article

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