Extensional and compressional strain in lava flows and the formation of fractures in surface crust

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 396, Issue , 2005, Pages 163-179

  Lescinsky, David T ^a   Merle, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Crust; Flow modeling; Fractures; Lava flows; Shear; Strain

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; FRACTURE; FRICTION; SHEAR STRESS; SHEARING; STRAIN;

COMPRESSIONAL STRAIN; CRUST; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW MODEL; FRACTURE PATTERN; LAVA FLOWS; RIGID SURFACES; SURFACE FRACTURE;

SHEAR FLOW;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; CRUST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTURE FLOW; LAVA FLOW; STRAIN RATE; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84874955129     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2396-5.163     Document Type: Article

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