Stress transfer between thirteen successive dyke intrusions in Ethiopia

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 713-717

  Hamling, Ian J ^a,d   Wright, Tim J ^a   Calais, Eric ^b   Bennati, Laura ^b   Lewi, Elias ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GEODETIC NETWORK; MAGMATISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; STRESS; TENSILE STRESS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77957602403     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo967     Document Type: Article

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