Transpressive strain on the Lipari-Vulcano volcanic complex and dynamics of the "La Fossa" cone (Aeolian Islands, Sicily) revealed by GPS surveys on a dense network

Tectonophysics

Volumn 457, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 64-70

  Bonforte, Alessandro ^a   Guglielmino, Francesco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground deformation; Modeling; Tyrrhenian Sea; Volcano tectonics

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; DATA INVERSION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STRAIN; TRANSPRESSION; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FOSSA CRATER; ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TYRRHENIAN SEA; VULCANO;

EID: 49349140768     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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