Readjustment of the Krafla spreading segment to crustal rifting measured by Satellite Radar Interferometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1843-1846

  Sigmundsson, Freysteinn ^a   Vadon, Hélène ^b   Massonnet, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF SOLIDS; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SUBSIDENCE; DEFORMATION; RADAR;

CRUSTAL RIFTING; DUCTILE FLOW; KRAFLA SPREADING SEGMENT; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

TECTONICS; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DEFORMATION; MID OCEAN RIDGE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RIFTING; SEA FLOOR SPREADING;

ICELAND, KRAFLA;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DUCTILE FLOW; ICELANDS; MAGMA CHAMBER; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0031200896     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01934     Document Type: Article

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