Static stress changes induced by the magmatic intrusions during the 2002-2003 Etna eruption

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Currenti, Gilda ^a   Del Negro, Ciro ^a   Ganci, Gaetana ^a,b   Williams, Charles A ^c,d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; DEFORMATION; DIKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS FIELD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

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

EID: 57649234950     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005301     Document Type: Article

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