The association of cone-sheets and radial dykes: Data from the Isle of Skye (UK), numerical modelling, and implications for shallow magma chambers

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 339-340, Issue , 2012, Pages 46-56

  Bistacchi, Andrea ^a   Tibaldi, Alessandro ^a   Pasquarè, Federico A ^b   Rust, Derek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cone sheets; Isle of Skye; Magma chamber; Mechanics of dykes; Numerical models

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VOLCANOES; CONE-SHEETS; CRITICAL DISTANCE; DIP ANGLE; ELASTO-PLASTIC; FIELD DATA; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; ISLE OF SKYE; MAGMA CHAMBER; OVERPRESSURE; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL FIELDS;

STRESSES; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

DIKE; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KINEMATICS; MAGMA CHAMBER; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRESS FIELD;

HEBRIDES; HIGHLAND; INNER HEBRIDES; SCOTLAND; SKYE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84863003245     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.020     Document Type: Article

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