Relations between the scaling exponents, entropies, and energies of fracture networks

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 184, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 373-382

  Gudmundsson, Agust ^a   Mohajeri, Nahid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crustal stresses; Earthquake faults; Iceland; Plate boundaries; Power laws; Tension fractures; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885638472     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.184.4-5.373     Document Type: Article

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