What controls the along-strike slopes of volcanic rift zones?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B9, 1999, Pages 20007-20020

  Fialko, Yuri A ^a,b,c   Rubin, Allan M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; RIFT ZONE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0033543284     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900143     Document Type: Article

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