Solitary fracture waves in metastable snow stratifications

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Heierli, Joachim ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; AVALANCHE; BASAL ICE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; SNOW; SOLITARY WAVE; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 33744772807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JF000178     Document Type: Article

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