The effect of fluid chemistry on quartz microcrack lifetimes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 1992, Pages 145-156

  Brantley, Susan L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK HEALING; FLUID CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; POROSITY; QUARTZ; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0027035592     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(92)90216-I     Document Type: Article

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