The effect of experimental and microstructural parameters on the transition from brittle failure to cataclastic flow of carbonate rocks

Tectonophysics

Volumn 258, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 151-169

  Renner, J ^a   Rummel, F ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FAILURE; CARBONATE ROCK; CATACLASTIC FLOW; COMPACTION; LIMESTONE; POROSITY; TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TEST;

EID: 0030478058     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00192-1     Document Type: Article

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