A plea for more caution in fault-slip analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 482, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 29-41

  Sperner, Blanka ^a   Zweigel, Peter ^b  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Data documentation; Fault slip analysis; Stress tensor

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; DATA DOCUMENTATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SEPARATION; FAULT-SLIP ANALYSIS; FAULT-SLIP DATUM; PRINCIPAL AXES; PRINCIPAL STRESS; REGIONAL PATTERN; REGIONAL TECTONICS; STRESS TENSORS;

SAMPLING; TENSORS; TOOLS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA QUALITY; FAULT SLIP; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING BIAS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 76049094610     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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