Mapping of the b value anomalies beneath Mt. Etna, Italy, during July-August 2001 lateral eruption

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Murru, M ^a   Montuori, C ^a   Console, R ^a   Lisi, A ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; MAPPING; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

B VALUE ANOMALIES; ERUPTION PERIOD; GEODETIC DEFORMATION; MAGMA MIGRATION;

TECTONICS;

ANOMALY; MAPPING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 20444504747     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021545     Document Type: Article

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