Favoured states of palaeostress in the Earth's crust: evidence from fault-slip data

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1051-1066

  Lisle, Richard J ^a   Orife, Tobore O ^b   Arlegui, Luis ^c   Liesa, Carlos ^c   Srivastava, Deepak C ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Faults; Poisson's ratio; Slip; Stress ratio; Stress survey

Indexed keywords

FAULTS; PALEOSTRESS; STRESS RATIO; STRESS SURVEY;

DEFORMATION; POISSON RATIO; STRAIN; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; PALEOSTRESS; POISSON RATIO; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 33744923967     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2006.03.012     Document Type: Article

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