Gravitational spreading and formation of new rift zones on overlapping volcanoes

Terra Nova

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-33

  Walter, Thomas R ^a,d,e   Klügel, Andreas ^b   Münn, Sebastian ^c  

^a GPZ Potsdam   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY FLOW; RIFT ZONE; VOLCANO;

EID: 33644859950     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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