Using microearthquakes to track repeated magma intrusions beneath the Eyjafjallajkull stratovolcano, Iceland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Tarasewicz, Jon ^a   Brandsdóttir, Bryndís ^b   White, Robert S ^a   Hensch, Martin ^b   Thorbjarnardóttir, Bergthóra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA; MICROEARTHQUAKE; SEISMICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOVOLCANO; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 84856952449     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008751     Document Type: Article

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