Active aseismic creep on the Alto Tiberina low-angle normal fault, Italy

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 683-686

  Hreinsdóttir, Sigrún ^a   Bennett, Richard A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; BEST FIT; BRITTLE CRUST; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DIP ANGLE; ESTABLISHED NETWORKS; FAULT PLANES; MAIN STRUCTURE; MICROSEISMICITY; NORMAL FAULTS; NORTHERN APENNINES; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SHALLOW DEPTHS; STANDARD THEORIES;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACTIVE FAULT; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CREEP; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GPS; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLIP;

EID: 69649099274     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30194A.1     Document Type: Article

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