4. Tectonic Stress, Mexico and western Central America
Contemporary crustal tectonic stress field inferred from borehole breakouts, slip inversions, and volcanic alignments; measurements, compilation, and tectonic interpretation
For most recent compilation, consult the World Stress Map Project at http://dc-app3-14.gfz-potsdam.de/pub/introduction/introduction_frame.html
Suter, M., State of stress and active deformation in Mexico and western Central America in Slemmons, D.B., Engdahl, E.R., Zoback, M.D., Blackwell, D.D. (eds.), Neotectonics of North America: Geological Society of America, Decade of North American Geology, Decade Map Volume 1, p. 401-421, 1991, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/DNAG-CSMS-NEO.401 .
1991 DNAG - Review Neotectonics of Mexico & Central America.pdf
Zoback, M. L., M.D. Zoback, J. Adams, S. Bell, M. Suter, G. Suárez, K. Jacob, C. Estabrook and M. Magee, Stress map of North America, Geological Society of America, The Decade of North American Geology, Continent-scale map-005, 1:5,000,000, 1990.
Zoback, M.L., Zoback, M.D., J. Adams, M. Assumpcao, S. Bell, E.A. Bergman, P. Blumling, N.R. Brereton, D. Denham, J. Ding, K. Fuchs, N. Gay, S. Gregersen, H.K. Gupta, A. Gvishiani, K. Jacob, R. Klein, P. Knoll, M. Magee, J.L. Mercier, B.C. Muller, C. Paquin, K. Rajendran, O. Stephansson, G. Suárez, M. Suter, A. Udias, Z. H. Xu. and M. Zhizhin, Global patterns of tectonic stress: Nature, v. 341, no. 6240, p. 291-298, 1989.
1989 Nature - World Stress Map Project.pdf
Suter, M., Orientational data on the state of stress in northeastern Mexico as inferred from stress-induced borehole elongations: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 92, p. 2617-2626, 1987.