A study of the crack network in thermally and mechanically cracked granite samples using Confocal Scanning Laser Microscopy

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 627-632

  Menendez B ^a   David, C ^a   Darot, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE NETWORK; GRANITE;

EID: 0033372363     PISSN: 14641895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1895(99)00091-5     Document Type: Article

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