Tracking precursors and degassing by radon monitoring during major eruptions at Stromboli Volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Cigolini, Corrado ^a   Gervino, G ^a   Bonetti, R ^b   Conte, F ^a   Laiolo, M ^a   Coppola, D ^a   Manzoni, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGASSING; EARTHQUAKES; FRACTURE; MONITORING; RADON; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

DEGASSING PROCESS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; RADON ANOMALIES; RADON MONITORING;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ANOMALY; PREDICTION; RADON; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STROMBOLI; WORLD;

EID: 25844437859     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022606     Document Type: Article

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