Seismotectonics of a newly formed transform zone near a hotspot: Earthquake mechanisms and regional stress in the South Iceland Seismic Zone

Tectonophysics

Volumn 447, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 95-116

  Angelier, Jacques ^a,b   Bergerat, Françoise ^c   Stefansson, Ragnar ^d   Bellou, Magalie ^a,c  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Tectonique   (France)

^d ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Earthquake focal mechanisms; Icelandic hotspot; Mid Atlantic Ridge; Oceanic rifting; Seismogenic stress inversion; Transform faulting

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; HOT SPOT; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 47049112657     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.07.016     Document Type: Article

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