Mud volcanoes discovered offshore Sicily

Marine Geology

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Holland, Charles W ^a   Etiope, Giuseppe ^b   Milkov, Alexei V ^c,e   Michelozzi, Enzo ^d   Favali, Paolo ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenhouse gas emission; Low frequency reverberation; Mud volcanoes; Sicily

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES; MUD VOLCANOES;

ACOUSTICS; GEOPHYSICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; SURVEYS;

VOLCANOES;

GREENHOUSE GAS; MUD VOLCANO; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST);

EID: 1642406353     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00125-7     Document Type: Article

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