Internal structure of the western flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, la Palma, Canary Islands, from land magnetotelluric imaging

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Garcia, X ^a,b   Jones, A G ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIOMAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDING; DIKE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EMPLACEMENT; MAPPING; VOLCANIC ISLAND; VOLCANO; DEFORMATION; EN ECHELON STRUCTURE; IMAGING METHOD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; VOLCANOLOGY;

CANARY ISLANDS; CUMBRE VIEJA; LA PALMA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN;

EID: 77955204988     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006445     Document Type: Article

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