Elasto-plastic modeling of volcano ground deformation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 311-318

  Currenti, Gilda ^a   Bonaccorso, Alessandro ^a   Del Negro, Ciro ^a   Scandura, Danila ^a   Boschi, Enzo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elasto plastic rheology; Etna volcano; Finite element method; Ground deformation

Indexed keywords

ELASTO-PLASTIC; ELASTO-PLASTIC MODELS; ELASTO-PLASTIC RHEOLOGY; ETNA VOLCANO; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA SOURCES; MAGMATIC SOURCES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRESSURE SOURCE; SURFACE DEFORMATION; THERMO-MECHANICAL; VISCOELASTIC MODELS; VOLCANIC REGION; VOLCANO TOPOGRAPHY;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; PLASTICS; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS; VISCOSITY; VOLCANOES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; VOLCANO;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 77954659311     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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