Origins of the European regional stress field

Tectonophysics

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 11-24

  Gölke, Matthias ^a   Coblentz, David ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Europe; Finite element method; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744434800     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00180-1     Document Type: Article

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