Influence of temperature on brittle creep in sandstones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Heap, M J ^b   Baud, P ^a   Meredith, P G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; CONSTANT STRAIN RATE; CREEP CURVES; CREEP STRAIN RATE; EARTH'S CRUST; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PORE FLUIDS; SHALLOW CRUST; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRIAXIAL STRESS CONDITION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CREEP; EXPERIMENTS; SANDSTONE; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

STRAIN RATE;

CRACKING; CREEP; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; SANDSTONE; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 72049103925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039373     Document Type: Article

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