Evolution of a fault surface from 3D attribute analysis and displacement measurements

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 690-700

  Lohr, Tina ^a   Krawczyk, Charlotte M ^b   Oncken, Onno ^a   Tanner, David C ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corrugations; Fault growth; Linkage; Segmentation; Seismic; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT GROWTH; FAULT LINKAGE; SEISMICITY;

TECTONICS;

AZIMUTH; DATA INTERPRETATION; FAULT; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 43949130721     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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