The permeability and elastic moduli of tuff from Campi Flegrei, Italy: Implications for ground deformation modelling

Solid Earth

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-44

  Heap, M J ^a   Baud, P ^a   Meredith, P G ^b   Vinciguerra, S ^c,d   Reuschle T ^a  

^a Et Université de Strasbourg   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ELASTIC MODULI; NEAPOLITAN YELLOW TUFFS; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSITS; ROCK PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRASONIC WAVE VELOCITY; VOLCANIC HAZARD MITIGATION;

ELASTIC MODULI; LABORATORIES; ROCKS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; VOLCANOES;

DEFORMATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ELASTIC MODULUS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IGNIMBRITE; LABORATORY METHOD; LITHIFICATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRIAXIAL TEST; TUFF;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; CAMPI FLEGREI; ITALY; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA];

EID: 84893335073     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-5-25-2014     Document Type: Article

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