Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1447-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1447-2013
Research article
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23 Sep 2013
Research article |  | 23 Sep 2013

Weak layer fracture: facets and depth hoar

I. Reiweger and J. Schweizer

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