Vertical stress profiles and the significance of "stress decoupling"

Tectonophysics

Volumn 581, Issue , 2012, Pages 193-205

  Cornet, François H ^a   Röckel, Thomas ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Piewak and partner Gmbh   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrochemico mechanical coupling; Integrating stress data; Stress decoupling; Stress maps; Vertical stress profile

Indexed keywords

DIAPIRISM; INTEGRATING STRESS DATA; LOCAL DEFORMATIONS; LOCAL STRESS; MAXIMUM HORIZONTAL PRINCIPAL STRESS; METAMORPHIC DOMAINS; PRINCIPAL STRESS; REGIONAL TECTONICS; RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; RHINE GRABEN; SCALE STRESS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY FORMATION; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SLOW DEFORMATION; STRESS FIELD; STRESS TENSORS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; VERTICAL STRESS; VERTICAL VARIATION;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIAPIRISM; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS FIELD; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

BURE; FRANCE; LORRAINE; MEUSE; NORTH GERMAN BASIN; RHINE GRABEN;

EID: 84870468725     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.020     Document Type: Article

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