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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
Volume 106, Issue B7, Pages 13769-13780Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2001JB000298
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Observations of deformation from 1992 to1997 in the southern Coso Range using satellite radar interferometry show deformation rates of up to 35 mm yr(-1) in an area similar to 10 km by 15 km. The deformation is most likely the result of subsidence in an area around the Coso geothermal field. The deformation signal has a short-wavelength component, related to production in the field, and a long-wavelength component, deforming at a constant rate, that may represent a source of deformation deeper than the geothermal reservoir. We have modeled the long-wavelength component of deformation and inferred a deformation source at similar to4 km depth. The source depth is near the brittle-ductile transition depth (inferred from seismicity) and similar to1.5 km above the top of the rhyolite magma body that was a source for the most recent volcanic eruption in the Coso volcanic field [Manley and Bacon, 2000]. From this evidence and results of other studies in the Coso Range, we interpret the source to be a leaking deep reservoir of magmatic fluids derived from a crystallizing rhyolite magma body.
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