Monofractality of Two Dimensional Natural Fracture Networks in the Kurihashi Granodiorite in the Kamaishi Mine, Northeast Japan

Journal of the Geothermal Research Society of Japan

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 327-339

  Kano, Shingo ^a   Tsuchiya, Noriyoshi ^a   Takebe, Masahiro ^a   Amano, Kenji ^b   Yoshida, Eiichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Box counting method; Cut off levels; Monofractal; Monofractal dimension; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905414622     PISSN: 03886735     EISSN: 18835775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11367/grsj1979.21.327     Document Type: Article

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