Stress field of Italy - Mean stress orientation at different depths and wave-length of the stress pattern

Tectonophysics

Volumn 532-535, Issue , 2012, Pages 301-311

  Pierdominici, Simona ^a,b   Heidbach, Oliver ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italy; Stress pattern; Stress sources; Tectonic stress; Wave length analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDS; DATA SETS; EURASIA; FIRST-ORDER; GRID POINTS; HORIZONTAL STRESS; ITALY; LOCAL STRESS; MEAN STRESS; NEOTECTONICS; NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; RADIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SARDINIA; SECOND ORDERS; STATISTICAL TOOLS; STRESS FIELD; STRESS PATTERN; STRESS PATTERNS; TECTONIC STRESS; THIRD-ORDER; TUSCANY;

MAPS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

STRESSES;

DATA SET; DATABASE; NEOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; WAVELENGTH;

ITALY; PUGLIA; SARDINIA;

EID: 84859103610     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.02.018     Document Type: Article

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