Magmatic fissures and their systems in Iceland: A tectonomagmatic model

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Tentler, Tatiana ^a   Temperley, Stephen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT; FISSURE; MAGMA; MODELING; RIFT ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TILT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 37549039060     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC002037     Document Type: Article

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