Changes in the stress regime and displacement field in the interior of Mount Etna deduced from surface observations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 269, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 299-315

  Dowden, J ^a   Murray, J ^b   Kapadia, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Displacement; Etna; Linear elasticity; Stress; Theoretical model

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; STRESS; VOLCANO;

ITALY, SICILY, MOUNT ETNA;

EID: 0030843759     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00154-0     Document Type: Article

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