The intrusive process leading to the Mt. Etna 2001 flank eruption: Constraints from 3-D attenuation tomography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Martínez Arévalo, Carmen ^a   Patanè, Domenico ^b   Rietbrock, Andreas ^c   Ibánez, Jesús M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKES; LEVEES; SEISMIC WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

ATTENUATION TOMOGRAPHY; FLANK ERUPTION; FLUID INTRUSION;

SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 29344442604     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023736     Document Type: Article

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