Determination of regional stress tensors from fault-slip data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1316-1330

  Xu, Peiliang ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Global optimization; Non linear inversion; Stress

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; OPTIMIZATION; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 3142713059     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02271.x     Document Type: Article

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