Present-day stress field and tectonic inversion in the Pannonian basin

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 58, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 165-180

  Bada, Gábor ^a,b   Horváth, Frank ^a   Dövényi, Péter ^a   Szafián, Péter ^a   Windhoffer, Gábor ^a   Cloetingh, Sierd ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

basin inversion; neotectonics; Pannonian basin; stress field

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; INVERSION TECTONICS; NEOTECTONICS; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 34250308435     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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