Deformations in transform faults with rotating crustal blocks

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2011-2030

  Pasternak, Elena ^a   Dyskin, A V ^a   Estrin, Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Block rotation; Cosserat continuum; Homogenisation; Non uniform deformations

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; COSSERAT THEORY; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS; TECTONIC ROTATION;

EID: 33750343529     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0110-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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