Poroelastic Techniques in the Study of Earthquake-Related Hydrologic Phenomena

Advances in Geophysics

Volumn 38, Issue C, 1996, Pages 135-195

  Roeloffs, Evelyn ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; POROELASTICITY; SEISMOLOGY; EARTHQUAKE; HYDROLOGY;

EID: 77956733302     PISSN: 00652687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2687(08)60270-8     Document Type: Article

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