European continuous active tectonic strain-stress map

Tectonophysics

Volumn 474, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 33-40

  Olaiz, A J ^a   Munoz Martin A ^a   De Vicente, G ^a   Vegas, R ^a   Cloetingh, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active strain stress; Centroid moment inversion; Europe; Focal mechanism

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STRAIN-STRESS; ACTIVE TECTONICS; AXIAL DEFORMATIONS; CENTROID MOMENT INVERSION; CRUSTAL STRENGTH; DIRECT INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; EUROPE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HARVARD; HORIZONTAL STRAIN; LOCAL PERTURBATION; PANNONIAN BASIN; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE KINEMATICS; QUALITY CRITERIA; REGULAR GRIDS; SLIP MODEL; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STRESS REGIME; STRESS VALUES; TECTONIC FORCES; TENSOR METHOD; VERTICAL LOAD;

TECTONICS;

FOCUSING;

ACTIVE MARGIN; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOCAL MECHANISM; HETEROGENEITY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SLIP; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 68849123010     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.06.023     Document Type: Article

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