Thermal stress evolution in cooling pluton environments of different geometries

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 707-710

  Bergbauer, Stephan ^a   Martel, Stephen J ^a   Hieronymus, Christoph F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT CONDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL STRESS; THERMOELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; TENSILE STRESS;

PLUTONS;

TECTONICS; THERMAL STRESS;

FRACTURING; PLUTON; THERMAL STRESS;

DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; STRESS EVOLUTION; THERMOELASTIC DISPLACEMENTS; THERMOELASTIC STRESS;

EID: 0032029616     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00047     Document Type: Article

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