Calculating horizontal stress orientations with full or partial knowledge of the tectonic stress tensor

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1328-1335

  Lund, Björn ^a   Townend, John ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fault mechanics; Focal mechanism; Gr msey lineament; Horizontal stress; Iceland; Stress tensor

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; LINEAMENT; STRAIN RATE; STRESS; TECTONICS;

ARCTIC; GRIMSEY; ICELAND;

EID: 34548144271     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03468.x     Document Type: Article

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