The effects of topography on magma chamber deformation models: Application to Mt. Etna and radar interferometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1549-1552

  Williams, Charles A ^a   Wadge, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOMETRY; INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION MODELS; DISPLACEMENT PROFILES; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RADIAL DISPLACEMENTS; SURFACE DEFORMATION; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; MAGMA CHAMBER DEFORMATION MODELS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; VOLCANOES;

DEFORMATION; MAGMA CHAMBER; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; TOPOGRAPHY;

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EID: 0032523628     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01136     Document Type: Article

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