Self-similar clustering of cinder cones and crust thickness in the Michoacan-Guanajuato and Sierra de Chichinautzin volcanic fields, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

Tectonophysics

Volumn 486, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 55-64

  Mazzarini, Francesco ^a   Ferrari, Luca ^b   Isola, Ilaria ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Crust thickness; Mexico; Tectonic; Vent distribution; Volcanic fields

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC; CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; CRUST THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CUT-OFF; FRACTAL EXPONENTS; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; HOLOCENES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATE PLIOCENE; MESOZOIC; MEXICO; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; POWER-LAW; PRECAMBRIAN; SELF-SIMILAR; SIZE RANGES; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT; UNDERPLATING; VOLCANIC FIELD;

CAVITY RESONATORS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; GEOPHYSICS; SIZE SEPARATION; TECTONICS;

VOLCANOES;

BACKARC BASIN; CINDER CONE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MAGMA ASSIMILATION; MESOZOIC; PLIOCENE; POWER LAW; PRECAMBRIAN; QUATERNARY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; TERTIARY; UNDERPLATING; VENTING; VOLCANOLOGY;

GUANAJUATO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHOACAN; SIERRA CHICHINAUTZIN VOLCANIC FIELD; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT;

EID: 77952009946     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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