One slope or two? Detecting statistically significant breaks of slope in geophysical data, with application to fracture scaling relationships

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2801-2804

  Main, I G ^a,d   Leonard, T ^a   Papasouliotis, O ^a   Hatton, C G ^b   Meredith, P G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Geology and Geophysics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DATA REDUCTION; FRACTURE; HYDRAULICS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN APPROACH; SCHWARZ'S INFORMATION CRITERION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; FRACTURE;

FAULT; FRACTURE; GEOSTATISTICS; POWER LAW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CHARACTERISTIC SIZE; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INFORMATION CRITERION; POWER LAW EXPONENT; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS;

EID: 0033568896     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005372     Document Type: Article

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