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Lateral magma flow within rifted Icelandic crust

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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.

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Sigurdsson, H., Sparks, S. Lateral magma flow within rifted Icelandic crust. Nature 274, 126–130 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274126a0

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