Surface deformation and stress interactions during the 2007-2010 sequence of earthquake, dyke intrusion and eruption in northern tanzania

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-26

  Biggs, Juliet ^a   Chivers, Michael ^a   Hutchinson, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Continental tectonics: extensional; Kinematics of crustal and mantle deformation; Physics of magma and magma bodies; Remote sensing of volcanoes; Satellite geodesy

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: EXTENSIONAL; KINEMATICS OF CRUSTAL AND MANTLE DEFORMATIONS; PHYSICS OF MAGMA AND MAGMA BODIES; REMOTE SENSING OF VOLCANOES; SATELLITE GEODESY;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEODETIC SATELLITES; KINEMATICS; VOLCANOES;

DEFORMATION;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; GRABEN; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA CHAMBER; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NORMAL FAULT; SATELLITE DATA;

TANZANIA;

EID: 84885745023     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt226     Document Type: Article

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