Paleostress analysis using the Hough transform for separating stresses from heterogeneous fault-slip data

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 980-990

  Yamaji, Atsushi ^a   Otsubo, Makoto ^a   Sato, Katsushi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fault slip analysis; Hypersphere; Pattern matching; Stress space; Stress tensor inversion

Indexed keywords

FAULT-SLIP ANALYSIS; HYPERSPHERE; PALEOSTRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS TENSOR INVERSION;

HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN MATCHING; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT SLIP; PALEOSTRESS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744907031     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2006.03.016     Document Type: Article

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