The role of Precambrian mylonitic belts and present-day stress field in the coseismic reactivation of the Pernambuco lineament, Brazil

Tectonophysics

Volumn 456, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 111-126

  Ferreira, Joaquim M ^a   Bezerra, Francisco H R ^a   Sousa, Maria O L ^a,b   do Nascimento, Aderson F ^a   Sá, Jaziel M ^a   França, George S ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b CNPq/CTPetro Research Grant   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Intraplate seismicity; Mylonite; Reactivation; Shear zone; Stress

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FOLIATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MYLONITE; PRECAMBRIAN; SEISMICITY; SHEAR ZONE; STRESS FIELD;

BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO; PERNAMBUCO BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 48849100347     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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