Combined kinematic and paleostress analysis of fault-slip data: The Multiple-slip method

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1603-1613

  Žalohar, Jure ^a   Vrabec, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Fault slip analysis; Kinematic analysis; Moment tensor summation; Paleostress analysis

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT GRADIENTS; FAULT PLANES; FAULT-SLIP ANALYSIS; GEOMETRIC MOMENTS; KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; MOMENT TENSOR SUMMATION; PALEOSTRESS ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL STRAINS; RELATIVE MAGNITUDES; SIZE RANGES; SLIP DIRECTIONS; STRESS STATES; STRESS TENSORS; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

TENSORS;

KINEMATICS;

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT SLIP; FAULTING; KINEMATICS; MOMENT TENSOR; PALEOSTRESS; SLIP;

EID: 56349140622     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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