Formation of voids and veins during faulting

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 657-671

  Brown, Stephen R ^a   Bruhn, Ronald L ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRILLING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERAL RESOURCES; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; STRESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ELASTIC DEFORMATION; FAULT ROUGHNESS; FAULTING; FLUID TRANSPORT; PROGRESSIVE FAULT DILATION; QUANTITATIVE MODEL; VEIN GEOMETRIES; VEINS; VOIDS;

TECTONICS;

FAULT ROUGHNESS; FAULTING; VEIN FORMATION; VOID FORMATION;

EID: 0029669293     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(96)80031-9     Document Type: Article

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