The fracture system and the melt emplacement beneath the Deception Island active volcano, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Pedrera Parias, Antonio, Ruiz Constán, Ana, Heredia, N., Galindo Zaldívar, Jesús, Bohoyo, Fernando, Marín Lechado, Carlos, Ruano, Patricia, Somoza, Luis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2011
• Subjects: Estrecho de Bransfield; fault; magnetotelluric; stress field; Isla Decepción; Antártida; materia fundida; Bransfield Isla; Deception Island; Estrecho; isla Decepción; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/277025; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102011000794

A new magnetotelluric (MT) survey, along with new topographic parametric sonar (TOPAS) profiles and geological field observations, were carried out on the Deception Island active volcano. 3-D resistivity models reveal an ENE–WSW elongated conductor located at a depth between two and ten kilometres b...