Role of the structural inheritance of the oceanic lithosphere in the magmato-tectonic evolution of Piton de la Fournaise volcano (La Réunion Island)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Michon, Laurent ^a   Saint Ange, Francky ^a   Bachelery, Patrick ^a   Villeneuve, Nicolas ^a   Staudacher, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FRACTURE ZONE; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC ISLAND; VOLCANO; VOLCANOLOGY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; MASCARENE BASIN; MASCARENE ISLANDS; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE; REUNION;

EID: 34250639334     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004598     Document Type: Article

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