On the feasibility of magma fracture within volcanic conduits: Constraints from earthquake data and empirical modelling of magma viscosity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  De Angelis, S ^a   Henton, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; EARTHQUAKES; VISCOSITY;

BRITTLE FAILURES; COMPACT SOURCES; EARTHQUAKE DATA; EMPIRICAL MODELLING; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; REPEATING EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC SWARM; SOURCE MECHANISMS; VOLCANIC CONDUIT;

VOLCANOES;

ANDESITE; DECADAL VARIATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABORATORY METHOD; MAGMA; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL; VISCOSITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLUME;

LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; MONTSERRAT; SOUFRIERE HILLS VOLCANO;

EID: 80054750818     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049297     Document Type: Article

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