Comparison of coupled fracture deformation and fluid flow models with direct measurements of fracture pore structure and stress-flow properties

28th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, USRMS 1987

Volumn , Issue , 1987, Pages 1213-1222

  Gale, J E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

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