Transient rift opening in response to multiple dike injections in the Manda Hararo rift (Afar, Ethiopia) imaged by time-dependent elastic inversion of interferometric synthetic aperture radar data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Grandin, R ^a   Socquet, A ^a   Doin, M P ^b   Jacques, E ^a   De Chabalier, J B ^a,c   King, G C P ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^c Observatoire Volcanologique et Sismologique de Guadeloupe   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; DEFLATION; DEFORMATION; DIKE; INTERFEROMETRY; LITHOSPHERE; OUTFLOW; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFT ZONE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AFAR; ETHIOPIA; MANDA HARARO RIFT;

EID: 77957565851     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006883     Document Type: Article

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