Global patterns of tectonic stress

ML Zoback, MD Zoback, J Adams, M Assumpcao… - Nature, 1989 - nature.com
Regional patterns of present-day tectonic stress can be used to evaluate the forces acting on
the lithosphere and to investigate intraplate seismicity. Most intraplate regions are …

Kinematic analysis of fault-slip data

R Marrett, RW Allmendinger - Journal of structural geology, 1990 - Elsevier
An array of graphical and numerical techniques facilitate qualitative and quantitative
kinematic analysis of fault-slip data. Graphical contouring and Bingham statistics of the …

Inversion of field data in fault tectonics to obtain the regional stress—III. A new rapid direct inversion method by analytical means

J Angelier - Geophysical Journal International, 1990 - academic.oup.com
A new method for determining the reduced stress tensor with four degrees of freedom (the
orientations of the three principal stress axes as well as the ratio of principal stress …

A review of methods for determining stress fields from earthquakes focal mechanisms; Application to the Sierentz 1980 seismic crisis (Upper Rhine graben)

J Maury, FH Cornet, L Dorbath - Bulletin de la Societe …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The inversion of earthquake focal mechanisms is one of the few tools available for
determining principal stress directions at seismogenic depths. Various methods have been …

Внутренняя структура континентальных разломных зон. Тектонофизический аспект

КЖ Семинский - 2003 - elibrary.ru
В монографии с позиций тектонофизики обобщены результаты изучения строения,
механизмов формирования и эволюции разрывных сетей в разноранговых разломных …

FMSI: A FORTRAN program for inverting fault/slickenside and earthquake focal mechanism data to obtain the regional stress tensor

JW Gephart - Computers & Geosciences, 1990 - Elsevier
Program FMSI inverts observations of slip directions on fault planes of known orientation in
order to determine the best-fitting four-parameter stress tensor, defined by three principal …

[PDF][PDF] Seismic sources and source parameters

P Bormann, S Wendt… - New manual of …, 2013 - gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de
3.1. 2.1 Macroseismic intensity 13 3.1. 2.2 Magnitude and early relationships to seismic
energy 13 3.1. 2.3 Scalar seismic and geometric moment, source spectrum, source …

Stress tensor inversion using detailed microearthquake information and stability constraints: Application to Ölfus in southwest Iceland

B Lund, R Slunga - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Using detailed microearthquake data, we present a stress tensor inversion scheme with new
methods for selecting the fault planes and allowing for errors in the focal mechanisms. The …

Stress and the direction of slip on fault planes

JW Gephart - Tectonics, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
The shear stress direction on a fault plane depends only on four of the six components of the
stress tensor. Assuming only that the slip direction marks the shear stress direction on any …

Variation of Cenozoic extension and volcanism across the southern Sierra Madre Occidental volcanic province, Mexico

ÁF Nieto-Samaniego, L Ferrari… - Geological …, 1999 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The middle to late Cenozoic tectonic-magmatic evolution of the Sierra Madre Occidental
volcanic province south of the Tropic of Cancer is summarized and analyzed for the first …