Upper bound on stylolite roughness as indicator for amount of dissolution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 337-338, Issue , 2012, Pages 186-196

  Laronne Ben Itzhak, Leehee ^a,b   Aharonov, Einat ^b   Toussaint, Renaud ^c,d   Sagy, Amir ^e  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Norway)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Family Vicsek scaling; LIDAR; Porosity; Pressure solution; Stylolites; Surface growth; Surface roughening

Indexed keywords

FAMILY-VICSEK SCALING; PRESSURE SOLUTION; STYLOLITES; SURFACE GROWTH; SURFACE-ROUGHENING;

FRACTALS; MAPS; OPTICAL RADAR; POROSITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DISSOLUTION;

DISSOLUTION; LIDAR; POROSITY; PRESSURE SOLUTION; STYLOLITE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84862644608     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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