Fracture morphology of tensile cracks and rupture velocity

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B1, 2000, Pages 723-738

  Müller, Gerhard ^a,b   Dahm, Torsten ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Inst of Meteorology and Geophysics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FRACTURE; TENSILE STRESS;

EID: 0034627622     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900314     Document Type: Article

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