The formation of Mount Etna as the consequence of slab rollback

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6755, 1999, Pages 782-785

  Gvirtzman, Zohar ^a,b   Nur, Amos ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ITALY;

EID: 0033592741     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44555     Document Type: Article

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