Subsidence of Askja caldera 2000-2009: Modelling of deformation processes at an extensional plate boundary, constrained by time series InSAR analysis

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 213-214, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-82

  De Zeeuw van Dalfsen, Elske ^a   Pedersen, Rikke ^b   Hooper, Andrew ^c   Sigmundsson, Freysteinn ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caldera deformation; Finite Element Modelling; Iceland; InSAR; RADARSAT; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; DATA SETS; DEFORMATION PROCESS; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; FEM MODELS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; ICELANDS; INSAR; INTERFEROGRAMS; INVERSE MODELLING; LINE-OF-SIGHT; MAGMATIC PLUMBING SYSTEM; MODEL RESULTS; PENNY-SHAPED CRACK; PLATE BOUNDARIES; POINT SOURCES; PRESSURE CHANGE; PRESSURE SOURCE; RADARSAT; RADARSAT-2; RHEOLOGICAL MODELS; SOURCE GEOMETRY; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; TECTONICS;

SUBSIDENCE;

CALDERA; DATA SET; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFEROMETER; PLATE BOUNDARY; RADARSAT; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ASKJA; ICELAND;

EID: 84255200952     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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