Paleostress states at the south-western margin of the Central European Basin System - Application of fault-slip analysis to unravel a polyphase deformation pattern

Tectonophysics

Volumn 470, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 129-146

  Sippel, Judith ^a,d   Scheck Wenderoth, Magdalena ^a   Reicherter, Klaus ^b   Mazur, Stanislaw ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Central European Basin System; Heterogeneous fault slip data; Multiple Inverse Method; Paleostress inversion; PBT Method

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL EUROPEAN BASIN SYSTEM; HETEROGENEOUS FAULT-SLIP DATA; MULTIPLE INVERSE METHOD; PALEOSTRESS INVERSION; PBT-METHOD;

BIOACCUMULATION; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; DEFORMATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PASCAL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; ROCKS; SHEAR STRESS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TECTONICS; TENSORS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CARBONIFEROUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; MESOZOIC; OUTCROP; PALEOSTRESS; REVERSE FAULT; STRESS FIELD; STRIATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANIC BASIN;

EID: 67349120678     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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