Publication Date:
2024-04-30
Description:
The Rhenish Massif in Central Europe, which includes the Eifel Volcanic Fields, has shown ongoing ground deformation and signs of possible unrest. A buoyant plume exerting uplift forces at the bottom of the lithosphere was proposed to explain such deformation; the hypothesis of (possibly concurrent) melt accumulation in the crust/lithospheric mantle has not been explored yet. Here, we test deformation models in an elastic half-space considering sources of varying aspect ratio, size and depth. We explore the effects of data coverage, noise and uncertainty on the inferred source parameters. We find that the observed deformation would require melt accumulation in sub-horizontal sill-like structures expanding at the rate of up to ∼0.045 km3/yr. We discuss feasibility, limitations and possible interpretations of our resulting models and elaborate on further observations which may help constrain the structure of the Rhenish Massif magmatic system.
Description:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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Published
Description:
e2023GL105824
Description:
OSV2: Complessità dei processi vulcanici: approcci multidisciplinari e multiparametrici
Description:
JCR Journal
Keywords:
Rhenish Massif
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volcanic unrest
;
GPS deformation
;
lithospheric intrusion
;
Solid Earth
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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