Source model for the 2001 flank eruption of Mt. Etna volcano

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Lundgren, Paul ^a   Rosen, Paul A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DEFORMATION; LEVEES; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VOLCANOES; FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; MERCURY (METAL);

INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR); FLANK ERUPTIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LONG-TERM DEFORMATION; MT. ETNA VOLCANOS; SHORT TIME SCALE; SOURCE MODELING; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; SYMMETRY OF MOTION;

GEOPHYSICS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

DEFORMATION; DIKE; FAULT SLIP; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ITALY; MOUNT ETNA; SICILY;

EID: 0141427653     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016774     Document Type: Article

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