Crustal stress and faulting: Methods

• Graphical stress inversion from fault slip data in the case of vertical principal stress
  • Approach: geometrical analysis
  • Result: Breddin's graph
  • Publication: Célérier & Séranne (2001)
  
  
• Evaluation of friction conditions for solutions of stress inversion from fault slip data
  • Approach: Mohr's circles
  • Result: importance of the stress ratio s₀ = (σ₁ - σ₃)/σ₁
  • Publication: Appendix A of Burg et al. (2005)
  
  
• Evaluation of the quality of stress tensor solutions in the case of multi-phase fault slip data
  • Approach: compare with random results
  • Result: define the minimal number of fitting data required for a significant solution tensor
  • Publication: Appendix A of Heuberger et al. (2010)

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