Throughgoing fractures in layered carbonate rocks

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1387-1404

  Gross, Michael R ^a   Eyal, Yehuda ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brittle deformation; Connectivity; Fracture zones; Fractures; Israel; Joints

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CARBONATE MINERALS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEFORMATION; FRACTURE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; STRATIGRAPHY;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; BRITTLE STRAIN; CARBONATE ROCKS; FRACTURE ZONES; THROUGHGOING FRACTURES;

ROCKS;

ANTICLINE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CARBONATE ROCK; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE ZONE; JOINT; LAYERED MEDIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 84874975905     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2007)119[1387:TFILCR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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