Spontaneous stratification in granular mixtures

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6623, 1997, Pages 379-382

  Makse, Hernán A ^a   Havlin, Shlomo ^a,b   King, Peter R ^c   Stanley, H Eugene ^a  

^a Boston University ^*  (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SEDIMENT;

EID: 0030949393     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386379a0     Document Type: Article

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