Building icelandic igneous crust by repeated melt injections

• Main Authors: Greenfield, T, White, RS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2015
• Subjects: earthquake; fluids; intrusion; melt injection; moment tensor solutions; non-double-couple sources; Askja; Iceland
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252450

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Observations of microseismicity provide a powerful tool for mapping the movement of melt in the crust. Here we record remarkable sequences of earthquakes 20 km below the surface in the normally ductile crust in the vicinity of Askja Volcano,...