Spatiotemporal gravity variations to look deep into the southern flank of Etna volcano

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Greco, Filippo ^a   Currenti, Gilda ^a   Del Negro, Ciro ^a   Napoli, Rosalba ^a   Budetta, Gennaro ^a   Fedi, Maurizio ^b   Boschi, Enzo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MAGMA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 78649513710     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006835     Document Type: Article

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