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Rise and Fall of a Multi-sheet Intrusive Complex, Elba Island, Italy

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Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems

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Elba Island intrusive complex: multisheet laccoliths, sheeted pluton, mafic dyke swarm. Laccolith magma fed from dykes and emplaced in crustal discontinuities (traps). Pluton growth by downward stacking of three magma pulses. Laccoliths and plutons: different outcomes of similar processes in different conditions. Emplacement of excess magma in a short time led to massive gravity slide.

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  1. Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Norwich University, Northfield, VT, USA

    D. S. Westerman

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    S. Rocchi & E. Roni

  3. Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Pisa, Italy

    A. Dini

  4. Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    F. Farina

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Westerman, D.S., Rocchi, S., Dini, A., Farina, F., Roni, E. (2015). Rise and Fall of a Multi-sheet Intrusive Complex, Elba Island, Italy. In: Breitkreuz, C., Rocchi, S. (eds) Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems. Advances in Volcanology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/11157_2014_5

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