A simple stress inversion of fault/slip data assuming Andersonian stress state

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

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

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Andersonian; Fault slip data; Heterogeneity; Parameter space; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; FAULT SLIP; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 3242800446     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002770     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Anderson, E. M. (1905), The dynamics of faulting, Trans, Edinburgh Geol. Soc., 8, 387-402.
2. Angelier, J. (1994), Fault slip analysis and palaeostress construction, in Continental Deformation, edited by P. L. Hancock, pp. 53-100, Pergamon, New York.
3. Armijo, R., E. Carey, and A. Cisternas (1982), The inverse problem in microtectonics and separation of tectonic phase, Tectonophysics, 82, 145-160.
4. Bott, M. H. P. (1959), The mechanics of oblique slip faulting, Geol. Mag., 96, 109-117.
5. Célérier, B. (1995), Tectonic regime and slip orientation of reactivated faults, Geophys. J. Int., 121, 143-161.
6. Célérier, B., and M. Séranne (2001), Breddin's graph for tectonic regimes. J. Struct. Geol., 23, 789-801.
7. Fry, N. (1992), Stress ratio determinations from striated faults: A spherical plot for cases of near-vertical principal stress, J. Struct. Geol., 14, 1121-1131.
8. Fry, N. (1999), Striated faults: Visual appreciation of their constraint on possible palaeostress tensors, J. Struct. Geol., 21, 7-22.
9. Fry, N. (2003), Direction of resolved shear stress: A construction and discussion, J. Struct. Geol., 25, 897-901.
10. Hardcastle, K. C., and L. S. Hills (1991), Brute3 and Select: QuickBasic 4 programs for determination of stress tensor configurations and separation of heterogeneous, Comput. Geosci., 17, 23-43.
11. Huang, Q. (1988), Computer-based method to separate heterogeneous sets of fault-slip data into subsets, J. Struct. Geol., 10, 297-299.
12. Jaeger, J. C. (1964), Elasticity Fracture and Flow: With Engineering and Geological Applications, 212 pp., Methuen, New York.
13. Lisle, R. J. (1988), Simple graphical constructions for the direction of shear, J. Struct. Geol., 20, 969-973.
14. Mckenzie, D., and J. Jackson (1993), The relationship between strain rate, crustal thickening, paleomagnetism, finite strain and fault movement along a deformation zone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 65, 182-202.
15. Molnar, P., and P. Tapponnier (1975), Cenozoic tectonics of Asia: Effects of a continental collision, Science, 189, 419-426.
16. Nemcok, M., and R. J. Lisle (1995), A stress inversion procedure for polyphase fault/slip data sets, J. Struct. Geol., 17, 1445-1453.
17. Nemcok, M., D. Kovac, and R. J. Lisle (1999), Stress inversion procedure for polyphase calcite twin and fault/slip data sets, J. Struct. Geol., 21, 597-611.
18. Shan, Y., H. Suen, and G. Lin (2003), Separation of polyphase fault/slip data: An objective-function algorithm based on hard division, J. Struct. Geol., 25, 829-840.
19. Shan, Y., Z. Li, and G. Lin (2004), A stress inversion procedure for automatic recognition of polyphase fault/slip data, J. Struct. Geol., 26, 919-925.
20. Xie, F. R., and G. X. Liu (1989), Analysis of neotectonic stress field in area of the central segment of Altun fault zone, China (in Chinese with an English abstract), Earthquake Res. China, 5, 26-36.
21. Yamaji, A. (2000), The multiple inverse method: A new technique to separate stresses from heterogeneous fault-slip data, J. Struct. Geol., 22, 441-452.