Dual reservoir structure at Soufrière Hills Volcano inferred from continuous GPS observations and heterogeneous elastic modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Foroozan, Roozbeh ^a   Elsworth, Derek ^a   Voight, Barry ^a   Mattioli, Glen S ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC FINITE ELEMENTS; DEEP RESERVOIRS; ELASTIC MODELING; EXCESS PRESSURE; GEODETIC DATA; GPS DATA; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PRESSURE SOURCE; SHALLOW RESERVOIRS; VOLCANIC SYSTEMS; VOLUME CHANGE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VOLCANOES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GPS; MAGMA CHAMBER; PRESSURE FIELD; VOLUME CHANGE;

LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; MONTSERRAT; SOUFRIERE HILLS VOLCANO;

EID: 77950495167     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042511     Document Type: Article

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