Gravitational and tectonic forces controlling postcollisional deformation and the present-day stress field of the Alps: Constraints from numerical modeling

Tectonics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Jiménez Munt, Ivone ^a,b   Garcia Castellanos, Daniel ^b,c   Negredo, A M ^d   Platt, J P ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GRAVITY; PLATE MOTION; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 29144470381     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001754     Document Type: Article

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