Do fault slip data inversions actually yield " paleostresses" that can be compared with contemporary stresses? A critical discussion

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 344, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 159-173

  Lacombe, Olivier ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Contemporary stress; Fault slip data; Inversion; Paleostress

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; FAULT SLIP; PALEOSTRESS;

EID: 84861201804     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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