Controls on Fault-Zone architecture in poorly Lithified Sediments, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico: Implications for Fault-Zone Permeability and fluid flow

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 113, Issue , 1999, Pages 27-49

  Heynekamp, Michiel R ^a   Goodwin, Laurel B ^a   Mozley, Peter S ^a   Haneberg, William C ^b,c  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Haneberg Geoscience   (United States)

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