What is meant by the expression “slip inversion”?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Slip inversion means reconstructing the orientation and shape of the stress ellipsoid (finding the stress matrix) from measured fault slip data (the orientation of fault planes, their lineation and sense of slip for a number of differently oriented fault planes).

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