Nyamulagira's magma plumbing system inferred from 15 years of InSAR

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-65

  Wauthier, C ^a,b,c   Cayol, V ^d   Poland, M ^e   Kervyn, F ^b   D'Oreye, N ^f,g   Hooper, A ^h,i   Samsonov, S ^j   Tiampo, K ^k   Smets, B ^b,g,l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f National Museum of Natural History   (Luxembourg)

^g European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology and The Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History   (Luxembourg)

^h DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^k CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^l VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MAGMA CHAMBER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO; DEFORMATION; DIKE; MAGMA; MODELING;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; NORD KIVU; NYAMURAGIRA;

EID: 84888993959     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP380.9     Document Type: Article

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