Improving deformation models by discounting transient signals in geodetic data: 2. Geodetic data, stress directions, and long-term strain rates in Italy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 5557-5575

  Carafa, Michele M C ^a   Bird, Peter ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

continental neotectonics; deformation model; Geodesy; stress orientation; tectonic deformation; transient deformation

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEFORMATION; GEODESY; MODELING; NEOTECTONICS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS;

ITALY;

EID: 84979741964     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013038     Document Type: Article

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