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Contraction Crack Networks in Basalt Flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

I. J. Smalley
I. J. Smalley
Affiliation:
Northampton College, London, E.C.1.
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Abstract

The traditional concept of contraction crack formation is based on a model having a regular arrangement of stress centres. A more realistic result is produced if the model consists of a close random packing of stress circles; this gives a crack configuration very close to that observed in real basalt flows.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 103 , Issue 2 , April 1966, pp. 110 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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