Imaging slow failure in triaxially deformed Etna basalt using 3D acoustic-emission location and X-ray computed tomography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Benson, Philip M ^a,b   Thompson, Ben D ^b   Meredith, Philip G ^a   Vinciguerra, Sergio ^c   Young, R Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; BASALT; COMPRESSION TESTING; DEFORMATION; MICROCRACKS; STRAIN RATE; TOMOGRAPHY;

X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY SCANNING;

VOLCANOES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; BASALT; COMPRESSION; CONFINING PRESSURE; DEFORMATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; MICROCRACK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRIAXIAL TEST; WAVE VELOCITY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548041650     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028721     Document Type: Article

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