Readjustment of the Krafla Spreading Segment to crustal rifting measured by satellite radar interferometry

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Abstract
Readjustment of the Krafla spreading segment on the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge in Iceland, after a rifting episode from 1975 to 1984, is detected by radar interferometry. Crustal deformation from 1992 to 1995 is dominated by ∼24 mm/year subsidence above a shallow magma chamber at Krafla, superimposed on ∼7 mm/year along‐axis subsidence of the spreading segment relative to its flanks. The deformation is caused by cooling contraction at ∼3 km depth and ductile flow of material away from the spreading axis, at a rate decreasing with time.