Explosive eruption of a picrite: The 3930 BP subplinian eruption of Etna volcano (Italy)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Coltelli, M ^a   Del Carlo, P ^a   Pompilio, M ^b   Vezzoli, L ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLTEN MATERIALS; PETROLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; THERMOMETERS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

GLASS GEOTHERMOMETRY; HOLOCENE STRATIGRAPHY; ITALY; PICRITIC MAGMA; SUBPLINIAN ERUPTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; PICRITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

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

EID: 31544471130     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024271     Document Type: Article

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