Effect of stress fields on magma chamber stability and the formation of collapse calderas

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Bosworth, William ^a   Burke, Kevin ^b   Strecker, Manfred ^c  

^a Marathon Intl Petroleum Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borehole breakouts; Collapse calderas; Kenya rift valley; Magma chamber stability; Present day stress fields; Stress field rotation

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; CALDERA; COLLAPSE; MAGMA CHAMBER; QUATERNARY; STRESS FIELD; VOLCANO;

EID: 0344667706     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001369     Document Type: Article

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