Nucleation and growth of geological faults

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 529-536

  Stoyan, D ^a   Gloaguen, R ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DEFORMATION; FAULT; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; GROWTH MODELING; NUCLEATION; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 80051978054     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-18-529-2011     Document Type: Article

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