Dynamic branched fractures in pulverized rocks from a deep borehole

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 799-802

  Sagy, Amir ^a   Korngreen, Dorit ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL VELOCITIES; DEEP BOREHOLES; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATERAL SHEAR; NEAR-SURFACE; SUB MICRON; TENSILE FRACTURES;

COMMINUTION; GEOMETRY; LITHOLOGY;

FRACTURE;

BOREHOLE; CARBONATE; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; FRAGMENTATION; LITHOLOGY; OUTCROP; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 84866659657     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33194.1     Document Type: Article

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