Dike-fault interaction during the 2004 Dallol intrusion at the northern edge of the Erta Ale Ridge (Afar, Ethiopia)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Nobile, Adriano ^a,b   Pagli, Carolina ^b   Keir, Derek ^c   Wright, Tim J ^b   Ayele, Atalay ^d   Ruch, Joel ^a   Acocella, Valerio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; LEVEES;

CONTINENTAL RIFTING; ETHIOPIA; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATIC INTRUSIONS; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE;

FAULTING;

DIKE; FAULT SLIP; GEODETIC DATUM; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; RIFTING; SEISMICITY;

AFAR;

EID: 84867526319     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053152     Document Type: Article

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