Sheet fractures: Response to erosional offloading or to tectonic stress?

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 106, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-24

  Twidale, C R ^a   Vidal Romani, J R ^b   Campbell, E M ^a   Centeno, J D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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