Onset of thermal convection of a single-phase fluid in an open vertical fault

Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 672-679

  Malkovsky, V I ^a   Pek, A A ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

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