Feedback processes between magmatic events and flank movement at Mount Etna (Italy) during the 2002-2003 eruption

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Walter, Thomas R ^a   Acocella, Valerio ^b   Neri, Marco ^c   Amelung, Falk ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK MECHANISM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

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

EID: 29444461323     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003688     Document Type: Article

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