Plate boundary deformation and man-made subsidence around geothermal fields on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 139-149

  Keiding, M ^a   Arnadottir T ^a   Jonsson S ^b   Decriem, J ^a   Hooper, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geothermal fields; Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR); Man made subsidence; Plate boundary; Triggered earthquakes

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR); INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE BOUNDARY; TRIGGERED EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; PLATE BOUNDARY; POWER PLANT; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC SOURCE; STRESS; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ICELAND; REYKJANES PENINSULA;

EID: 77954535680     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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