Topographie control on lava flow paths at Mount Etna, Italy: Implications for hazard assessment

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Favalli, Massimiliano ^a   Mazzarini, Francesco ^a   Pareschi, Maria Teresa ^a   Boschi, Enzo ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAVA FLOW; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

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

EID: 68949091257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000918     Document Type: Article

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