Slip preference on pre-existing faults: A guide tool for the separation of heterogeneous fault-slip data in extensional stress regimes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 544-545, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-74

  Tranos, Markos D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fault reactivation; Fault slip method; Palaeostress; Slip tendency; Stress tensor

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF FRICTIONS; DIP ANGLE; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; EXTENSIONAL STRESS; FAULT DIP ANGLE; FAULT REACTIVATION; FAULT-SLIP DATUM; PALAEOSTRESS; PRACTICAL METHOD; PRINCIPAL STRESS; SLIP TENDENCY; STRAIN COMPATIBILITY; STRESS INVERSION; STRESS RATIO; STRESS REGIME; STRESS STATE; STRESS TENSORS; TRANSTENSION; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

SEDIMENTATION; SEPARATION; TENSORS; TOOLS;

FAULT SLIPS;

FAULT SLIP; FRICTION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; KINEMATICS; PALEOSTRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ANDERSONIA;

EID: 84861004944     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.032     Document Type: Article

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