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Fracture and damage localization in volcanic edifice rocks from El Hierro, Stromboli and Tenerife

Harnett, CE; Benson, PM; Rowley, P; Fazio, M; (2018) Fracture and damage localization in volcanic edifice rocks from El Hierro, Stromboli and Tenerife. Scientific Reports , 8 , Article 1942. 10.1038/s41598-018-20442-w. Green open access

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Abstract

We present elastic wave velocity and strength data from a suite of three volcanic rocks taken from the volcanic edifces of El Hierro and Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), and Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Italy). These rocks span a range of porosity and are taken from volcanoes that sufer from edifce instability. We measure elastic wave velocities at known incident angles to the generated through-going fault as a function of imposed strain, and examine the efect of the damage zone on P-wave velocity. Such data are important as feld measurements of elastic wave tomography are key tools for understanding volcanic regions, yet hidden fractures are likely to have a signifcant efect on elastic wave velocity. We then use elastic wave velocity evolution to calculate concomitant crack density evolution which ranges from 0 to 0.17: highest values were correlated to the damage zone in rocks with the highest initial porosity.

Type: Article
Title: Fracture and damage localization in volcanic edifice rocks from El Hierro, Stromboli and Tenerife
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20442-w
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20442-w
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10098145
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