On the Scaling and Ordering of Columnar Joints

Columnar jointing is a fracture pattern, best known from locations such as the Giant's Causeway, or Fingal's Cave, in which cracks self-organize into a nearly hexagonal arrangement, leaving behind an ordered colonnade. In this thesis observations of columnar jointing are reported from bot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goehring, Lucas
Other Authors: Morris, Stephen W.
Format: Others
Language:en_ca
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11109