Volcano growth mechanisms and the role of sub-volcanic intrusions: Insights from 2D seismic reflection data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 373, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-53

  Magee, Craig ^a   Hunt Stewart, Esther ^a   Jackson, Christopher A L ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australia; Seismic reflection data; Sill; Vent; Volcano; Volcano deformation

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DEFORMATION PATTERN; INCREMENTAL EMPLACEMENT; INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE; INTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SILL; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DEFORMATION; HOT SPRINGS; MORPHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VENTS;

VOLCANOES;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LACCOLITH; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SHIELD VOLCANO; SILL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC LANDFORM; VOLCANOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84878438165     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.041     Document Type: Article

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