Plio-Quaternary stress states in NE Iran: Kopeh Dagh and Allah Dagh-Binalud mountain ranges

Tectonophysics

Volumn 480, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 280-304

  Shabanian, Esmaeil ^a,b   Bellier, Olivier ^a   Abbassi, Mohammad R ^b   Siame, Lionel ^a   Farbod, Yassaman ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cenozoic tectonics; Kopet Dagh; Neyshabur Fault; Slip vector chronology; Strain stress partitioning; Stress state

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC TECTONICS; COLLISION ZONE; COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; DEFORMATION DOMAIN; DEFORMATION RATES; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; EURASIA; FAULT KINEMATICS; FAULT SLIP; GEOLOGICAL TIME; INTERMEDIATE STRESS; INVERSION ANALYSIS; KOPEH DAGH; KOPET DAGH; MAXIMUM STRESS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; PALEO-STRESS; REVERSE FAULTING; STATE OF STRESS; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS FIELD; STRESS PARTITIONING; STRESS STATE; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TRANSPRESSIONAL TECTONICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; KINEMATICS; STRESSES;

TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOSTRESS; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRESS CHANGE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

IRAN; KOPET-DAGH BASIN;

EID: 72649090286     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.10.022     Document Type: Article

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