Displacement, strain and stress fields due to shear and tensile dislocations in a viscoelastic half-space

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1399-1417

  Piombo, Antonello ^a   Tallarico, A ^b   Dragoni, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deformation; Dislocation; Lithosphere; Rheology; Stress distribution; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISLOCATION; DISPLACEMENT; HALF SPACE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; STRESS FIELD; TENSILE STRESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 34548128897     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03283.x     Document Type: Article

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