Increased capture of magma in the crust promoted by ice-cap retreat in Iceland

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 783-786

  Hooper, Andrew ^a   Ófeigsson, Benedikt ^b   Sigmundsson, Freysteinn ^b   Lund, Björn ^c   Einarsson, Páll ^b   Geirsson, Halldór ^d   Sturkell, Erik ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUST; DIKE; GPS; ICE CAP; LAST GLACIATION; MAGMA; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE EFFECT; VOLCANO;

ICELAND; KVERKFJOLL;

EID: 80455168194     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1269     Document Type: Article

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