The intimate relationship between strain and magmatism: A numerical treatment of clustered monogenetic fields in the Main Ethiopian Rift

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-64

  Mazzarini, Francesco ^a   Rooney, Tyrone O ^b   Isola, Ilaria ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOPHYSICS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

GEOCHEMICAL CONTROL; MAGMA RESERVOIRS; MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT; MONOGENETIC VOLCANISM; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; PLUMBING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STRAIN PARTITIONING;

LEVEES;

GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATISM; QUATERNARY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN ANALYSIS; VOLCANISM;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIAN RIFT;

EID: 84881227839     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012TC003146     Document Type: Article

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