Diapiric ascent of silicic magma beneath the Bolivian Altiplano

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2044-2048

  Del Potro, Rodrigo ^a   Díez, Mikel ^a   Blundy, Jon ^a   Camacho, Antonio G ^b   Gottsmann, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Altiplano Puna; gravity inversion; Igneous diapirs; magma ascent; Uturuncu volcano

Indexed keywords

ALTIPLANO-PUNA; COMPOSITIONAL EVOLUTION; DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION; GRAVITY INVERSIONS; IGNEOUS DIAPIRS; MAGMA ASCENTS; STRUCTURAL CONNECTIONS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; VOLCANOES;

GRAVITATION;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; MAGMA; PETROLOGY; RESOLUTION; SILICIC ACID; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLUME;

ANDES; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84879975259     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50493     Document Type: Article

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