A brittle failure mode plot defining conditions for high-flux flow

Economic Geology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-47

  Sibson, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FAILURE; FLUID PRESSURE; FRACTURE INITIATION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; ORE DEPOSIT;

EID: 0034053436     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.95.1.41     Document Type: Article

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