Influences of plate-boundary forces on the regional intraplate stress field of continental Australia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 372, Issue , 2003, Pages 59-70

  Reynolds, S D ^a   Coblentz, D D ^b   Hillis, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Modelling; Plate dynamics; Stress

Indexed keywords

MODELS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; COMPRESSIONAL FORCE; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; INTRAPLATE STRESS FIELDS; REGIONAL STRESS FIELD; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA;

STRESSES;

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84871456856     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2372-8.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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