Effects of tidal stresses on volcanic activity at Mount Etna, Italy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Sottili, Gianluca ^a   Martino, S ^a   Palladino, D M ^a   Paciello, A ^b   Bozzano, F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VOLCANOES;

CONTROLLED MAGME VESICULATION; GAS-SATURATED MAGMA RESERVOIR; VOLCANO-TECTONIC STRESSES;

SEISMOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAVA; MAGMA CHAMBER; NUMERICAL METHOD; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TIDAL CYCLE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

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

EID: 34548018313     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028190     Document Type: Article

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