Starch columns: Analog model for basalt columns

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 15239-15253

  Müller, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Inst of Meteorology and Geophysics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FRACTURE MECHANICS; JOINTING; MODEL;

EID: 0032503899     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00389     Document Type: Article

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