Fracture spacing in layered rocks: a new explanation based on the stress transition
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- 1 January 2000
- journal article
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- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Structural Geology
- Vol. 22 (1) , 43-57
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0191-8141(99)00137-6
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