Gravitational potential stresses and stress field of passive continental margins: Insights from the south-Norway shelf

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 464-473

  Pascal, Christophe ^a,b   Cloetingh, Sierd A P L ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(neo)tectonics; heat flow; lithosphere structure; seismicity; topography

Indexed keywords

(NEO)TECTONICS; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC EVOLUTIONS; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGIES; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIALS; HEAT FLOW; LITHOSPHERE STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS; SEISMICITY; SEISMICITY PATTERNS; STRESS FIELDS; STRESS PATTERNS; STRESS ROTATIONS; STRESS STATES;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; GRAVITATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DATA SET; HEAT FLOW; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 58149314031     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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