A constitutive law for low-temperature creep of water-saturated sandstones

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B10, 2001, Pages 21811-21826

  Ngwenya, Bryne T ^a   Main, Ian G ^a   Elphick, Stephen C ^a   Crawford, Brian R ^b   Smart, Brian G D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROMECHANICS; SANDSTONE; SATURATED MEDIUM; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0035165431     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jb000403     Document Type: Article

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