Evolution of Santorini Volcano dominated by episodic and rapid fluxes of melt from depth

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 749-754

  Parks, Michelle M ^a   Biggs, Juliet ^b   England, Philip ^a   Mather, Tamsin A ^a   Nomikou, Paraskevi ^c   Palamartchouk, Kirill ^a,d   Papanikolaou, Xanthos ^e   Paradissis, Demitris ^e   Parsons, Barry ^a   Pyle, David M ^a   Raptakis, Costas ^e   Zacharis, Vangelis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DATA SET; DOME; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GPS; MAGMA; MELTING; PETROLOGY; RESERVOIR; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

GREECE; SANTORINI [SOUTHERN AEGEAN]; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84867006816     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1562     Document Type: Article

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