Lateral magma flow within rifted Icelandic crust

Authors

Haraldur Sigurdsson, University of Rhode Island
Stephen R.J. Sparks, University of Rhode Island

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

12-1-1978

Abstract

Draining of high-level magma reservoirs of central volcanoes during rifting episodes can result in up to 70 km lateral magma flow within the crust and caldera collapse. © 1978 Nature Publishing Group.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Nature

Volume

274

Issue

5667

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Sigurdsson, Haraldur, and Stephen R. Sparks. "Lateral magma flow within rifted Icelandic crust." Nature 274, 5667 (1978). doi: 10.1038/274126a0.