Rheologic controls on inter-rifting deformation of the Northern Volcanic Zone, Iceland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 14-26

  Pedersen, Rikke ^a   Sigmundsson, Freysteinn ^a   Masterlark, Timothy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS; InSAR; modelling; plate boundary deformation; rheology; rift structure

Indexed keywords

GPS; INSAR; MODELLING; PLATE BOUNDARY DEFORMATION; RIFT STRUCTURE;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PLASTICITY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RHEOLOGY; TOOLS; VISCOSITY; VOLCANOES;

SURFACES;

CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; DEFORMATION; FISSURE; GPS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELING; PLATE BOUNDARY; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 63449131497     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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