Measuring fracture apertures: A comparison of methods

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 289-292

  Renshaw, Carl E ^a   Dadakis, Jason S ^a   Brown, Stephen R ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b New England Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRACTURE APERTURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

FRACTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

FRACTURE APERTURES; SUBSURFACE FLOW SYSTEMS;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 0034353162     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008384     Document Type: Article

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