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ring fracture

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ring fracture [′riŋ ‚frak·chər]
(geology)


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These limit states are concerned with the overall bending moment or local bending moment and stretching force in the liner wall at ring fractures or joints (limit state 4), and local stresses associated with the liner in the vicinity of a water service connection (limit state 6).
It''s an area that''s going to be permeable because it''s along the ring fracture of the major vent.
The eruptions in 1937 and this intense period of unrest starting in 1971 made people worry that the next event could unzipper the ring fracture and lead to a caldera-forming eruption," says volcanologist Daniel Dzurisin of the USGS' Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash.
 
 
 
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