Motion of Adria and ongoing inversion of the Pannonian Basin: Seismicity, GPS velocities, and stress transfer

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 425, Issue , 2007, Pages 243-262

  Bada, Gàbor ^a,b   Grenerczy, Gyula ^c   Tóth, László ^d   Horvàth, Frank ^a   Stein, Seth ^e   Cloetingh, Sierd ^b   Windhoffer, Gábor ^a   Fodor, László ^f   Pinter, Nicholas ^g   Fejes, István ^c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^c Foldmeresi es Taverzekelesi Intezet Budapest   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^g SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS; Pannonian Basin; Seismicity; Stress transfer

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION; DIFFERENTIAL TOPOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; PANNONIAN BASIN; SEISMICITY; STRESS AND DEFORMATION; STRESS TRANSFER; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BUOYANCY; CONVERGENCE; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULTING; GPS; LITHOSPHERE; MICROPLATE; MOUNTAIN; REACTIVATION; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPS; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; PANNONIAN BASIN;

EID: 72049127479     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2425(16)     Document Type: Article

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