A stress inversion procedure for automatic recognition of polyphase fault/slip data sets

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 919-925

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

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Fuzzy clustering; Polyphase fault slip data sets; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; STRESS FIELDS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; DEFORMATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; TENSORS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DATA INVERSION; FAULT SLIP; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 1642353539     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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