3-D simulation of tectonic loading at convergent plate boundary zones: Internal stress fields in northeast Japan

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1803-1817

  Hashimoto, Chihiro ^a   Matsu'ura, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collision rate; Elastic dislocation theory; Partial collision; Plate convergence; Tectonic loading

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; FOLDING; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SIMULATION; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33750306111     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0098-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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