Earthquake and volcano clustering via stress transfer at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 785-788

  Parsons, Tom ^a   Thompson, George A ^b   Cogbill, Allen H ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin and Range Province; Clustering; Earthquake; Extension; Hazard; Magmatism; Nuclear waste repository; Stress transfer; Volcano; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP; MAGMATIC CLUSTERING; STRESS TRANSFER;

EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

TECTONICS;

BASALT; EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; STRESS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 33748941101     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22636.1     Document Type: Article

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