Regional stress field of the Indian Plate
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 12 (2) , 77-80
- https://doi.org/10.1029/gl012i002p00077
Abstract
We have calculated the regional stress field in the Indian plate, implementing dependence of slab pull and ridge push on the age of the oceanic lithosphere in the finite element procedure. The high level of the calculated stress field (order of a few kbar) and the dominance of compression in the plate are consequences of the unique dynamic situation of the present‐day Indian plate. The calculated stress field explains the concentration of intraplate deformation in the region of the Ninetyeast Ridge and yields insight into the variations in stress directions in the Australian continent.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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