Micromechanics of brittle faulting and cataclastic flow in Berea sandstone

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-16

  Menéndez, Beatriz ^a,b   Zhu, Wenlu ^a   Wong, Teng Fong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The French National Centre for Scientific Research   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; DEFECTS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FLOW OF SOLIDS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROCRACKS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PORE PRESSURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

BRITTLE FAULTING; CATACLASTIC FLOW; CONFINING PRESSURE; DILATANCY; FAILURE MICROMECHANICS; NON HYDROSTATIC STRESS; SHEAR LOCALIZATION; STEREOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS;

SANDSTONE;

BEREA SANDSTONE; BRITTLE FAULTING; CATACLASTIC FLOW; MICROMECHANICS; ROCK FAILURE;

EID: 0029732036     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8141(95)00076-P     Document Type: Article

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