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SUBMITTER: Thun J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5101494 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thun Johannes J Lokmer Ivan I Bean Christopher J CJ Eibl Eva P S EP Bergsson Bergur H BH Braiden Aoife A
Scientific reports 20161109
Many of the world's largest volcanic eruptions are associated with geological rifting where major fractures open at the Earth's surface, yet fundamental controls on the near-surface response to the rifting process are lacking. New high resolution observations gleaned from seismometer data during the 2014 Bárðarbunga basaltic dyke intrusion in Iceland allow us unprecedented access to the associated graben formation process on both sub-second and micrometre scales. We find that what appears as qua ...[more]