Multiple melt injection along a spreading segment at Askja, Iceland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Key, J ^a   White, R S ^a   Soosalu, H ^a,b   Jakobsdottir S S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Geological Survey of Estonia   (Estonia)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; ICELANDS; LOWER CRUST; MAGMA CHAMBER; MELT INJECTION; MELT MIGRATION; MELT PRODUCTION; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; MULTIPLE POINTS; PARTIAL MELT; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SLOW-SPREADING RIDGES; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPREADING RIDGE; TIME-SCALES; UPPER CRUST; VOLCANIC SYSTEMS;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; MELT INCLUSION; PARTIAL MELTING; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VOLCANO;

ASKJA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ICELAND; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 79952378263     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046264     Document Type: Article

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