Extension across a divergent plate boundary, the Eastern Volcanic Rift Zone, south Iceland, 1967-1994, observed with GPS and electronic distance measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 11913-11929

  Jónsson, Sigurjón ^a,b   Einarsson, Páll ^a   Sigmundsson, Freysteinn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EXTENSION; DYKE INTRUSION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GPS; RIFTING; SPREADING RATE; TECTONICS;

ICELAND, EASTERN VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 0030669982     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb03893     Document Type: Article

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