Shallow axial magma chamber at the slow-spreading Erta Ale Ridge

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 284-288

  Pagli, Carolina ^a   Wright, Tim J ^a   Ebinger, Cynthia J ^b   Yun, Sang Ho ^c   Cann, Johnson R ^a   Barnie, Talfan ^d   Ayele, Atalay ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIKE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGMA CHAMBER; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SPREADING CENTER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ERTA ALE; ETHIOPIA; ETHIOPIAN RIFT;

EID: 84859298197     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1414     Document Type: Article

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