How diking affects the longer-term structure and evolution of divergent plate boundaries

• Main Authors: Trippanera, Daniele, Acocella, Valerio, Ruch, Joel, Rivalta, Eleonora
• Other Authors: Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division, Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Scienze, Rome, Italy, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Potsdam
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Bardarbunga; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10754/595108

Recurrent diking episodes along divergent plate boundaries, as at Dabbahu (2005, Afar) or at Bardarbunga (2014, Iceland) , highlight the possibility to have m-wide opening in a short time (days to weeks). This suggests a prominent role of magma enhancing transient plate separations. However, the rol...