Relating permeability to the structural setting of a fault-controlled hydrothermal system in southeast Oregon, USA

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Anderson, Todd R ^a   Fairley, Jerry P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; PERMEABILITY; STRESS FIELD; THERMAL SPRING;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52949085134     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB004962     Document Type: Article

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