Damage zones around en echelon dike segments in porous sandstone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B2, 2000, Pages 3115-3133

  Weinberger, Ram ^a,b   Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^b   Baer, Gidon ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIKE; SANDSTONE;

EID: 0034628335     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900361     Document Type: Article

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