Tensor program for fault-kinematic analysis and paleostress reconstruction
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  • New Program SG2PS which performs direct inversion using different methods and with whom Win-Tensor 5.0.2 and above can exchange data.
    SASVARI, A., BAHAREV, A. (2014). SG2PS (structural geology to postscript converter) - A graphical solution for brittle structural data evaluation and paleostress calculation. Computer and Geosciences 66, 81-93. Science Direct

  • Complete description of the program procedures and basic concepts used in Win-Tensor (based on the DOS version).
    DELVAUX, D. AND SPERNER, B. (2003). Stress tensor inversion from fault kinematic indicators and focal mechanism data: the TENSOR program. In: New Insights into Structural Interpretation and Modelling (D. Nieuwland Ed.). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 212: 75-100. Full Paper

  • A useful review of the use of tectonic stress data in the view of the World Stress Map project.
    SPERNER, B., MÜLLER, B., HEIDBACH, O., DELVAUX, D., REINECKER, J. AND FUCHS, K. (2003). Tectonic Stress in the Earth's Crust: Advances in the World Stress Map Project. In: New Insights into Structural Interpretation and Modelling (D. Nieuwland Ed.). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 212: 101-116. Full Paper

  • Application to fault-kinematic analysis in the East African Rift System.
    DELVAUX, D., KERVYN, F., MACHEYEKI, A., TEMU, E.B., (2012). Geodynamic significance of the TRM segment in the East African Rift(W-Tanzania): Active tectonics and paleostress in the Ufipa plateau and Rukwa basin, Journal of Structural Geology, in press. Full paper

  • Application to present-day stress field inversion from earthquakes focal mechanisms in the East African Rift System.
    DELVAUX, D., BARTH, A. (2010). African Stress Pattern from formal inversion of focal mechanism data. Implications for rifting dynamics. Tectonophysics, 482: 105-128. Full paper

  • Application to present-day stress field inversion from earthquakes focal mechanisms in the Baikal rift zone.
    PETIT, C., DÉVERCHÈRE, J., HOUDRY-LÉMONT, F., SANKOV, V.A., MELNIKOVA, V.I. AND DELVAUX, D. (1996). Present-day stress field changes along the Baikal rift and tectonic implications. Tectonics, 15(6): 1171-1191. Full paper

  • Application to cenozoic rifting in the Baikal rift zone.
    DELVAUX, D., MOEYS, R., STAPEL, G., PETIT, C., LEVI, K., MIROSHNICHENKO, A., RUZHICH, V. AND SANKOV, V. (1997). Paleostress reconstructions and geodynamics of the Baikal region, Central Asia. Part II: Cenozoic rifting. In: Cloetingh, S., Fernandez, M., Munoz, J.A., Sassi, W., and Horvath, F. (Editors), Structural controls on sedimentary basin formation. Tectonophysics, 282: 1-38. Full paper

  • Application to Paleozoic - Mesozoic compressional tectonics in the Baikal rift zone.
    DELVAUX, D., MOEYS, R., STAPEL, G., MELNIKOV, A. AND ERMIKOV, V. (1995). Paleostress reconstruction and geodynamics of the Baikal region, Central Asia. Part I. Pre-rift evolution: Paleozoic and Mesozoic. Tectonophysics, 252: 61-101. Full paper

  • Application to transtensional tectonics in the Dead Sea - Gulf of Aqaba transform/rift zone.
    ZAIN ELDEEN, U., DELVAUX, D. AND JACOBS, P. (2002). Tectonic evolution in the Wadi Araba segment of the Dead Sea Rift, SW Jordan. EGU Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series, 2: 63-81. Full paper


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Sample data files

These samples data files are those used in Delvaux and Sperner (2003) for demonstrating the procedure of data separation and stress tensor calculation. They are presented in 5 different formats.

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