The Italian present-day stress map

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 705-716

  Montone, Paola ^a   Mariucci, Maria Teresa ^a   Pierdominici, Simona ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Downhole methods; Europe; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX INTERACTION; CRUSTAL MOTIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA COMPILATION; DATA POINTS; DATA SETS; DOWNHOLES; EURASIA; EUROPE; EXTENSIONAL STRESS; FAULT DATA; FIRST-ORDER; GEODYNAMIC MODELS; HORIZONTAL STRESS; LOCAL EFFECTS; SECOND ORDERS; STRESS FIELD; STRESS REGIME; STRESS-FIELD ORIENTATION; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ALIGNMENT; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS;

STRESSES;

AFRICAN PLATE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE; EURASIAN PLATE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

HYBLEAN PLATEAU; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84859712595     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05391.x     Document Type: Article

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