Broad accommodation of rift-related extension recorded by dyke intrusion in Saudi Arabia

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 705-712

  Pallister, John S ^a   McCausland, Wendy A ^a   Jónsson, Sigurjón ^b   Lu, Zhong ^a   Zahran, Hani M ^c   El Hadidy, Salah ^c   Aburukbah, Abdallah ^c   Stewart, Ian C F ^c   Lundgren, Paul R ^d   White, Randal A ^a   Moufti, Mohammed R H ^e  

^a CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (United States)

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

^c SAUDI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIKE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; FAULT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC DATA; STATE ROLE; UPWELLING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVE GENERATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 77957551460     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo966     Document Type: Article

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