How local stresses control magma-chamber ruptures, dyke injections, and eruptions in composite volcanoes

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-31

  Gudmundsson, Agust ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

crustal stress; dyke injection; layered crust; magma chamber; volcanic eruption; volcanotectonic modelling

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DIKE; DISPLACEMENT; MAGMA CHAMBER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; STRESS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

EID: 33750956875     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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