Breaking Up: Comminution Mechanisms in Sheared Simulated Fault Gouge
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عنوان ژورنال: Pure and Applied Geophysics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0033-4553,1420-9136
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0266-6