A multidisciplinary study of the volcanoclastic deposit named " Chiancone" , inland and offshore, in the frame of the evolution of volcanism in the Etna area

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 186, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 138-153

  Delfa, Santo La ^a   Camuti, Maria Giovanna ^a   Patanè, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chiancone; Morphology; Mt. Etna; Vertical Electrical Soundings

Indexed keywords

CHIANCONE; CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FILLING IN; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IONIAN SEA; MT. ETNA; MULTI-BEAM; VERTICAL ELECTRICAL SOUNDING;

MORPHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SUBSTRATES; SURVEYING;

DEPOSITS;

DEPOSITION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; OUTCROP; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; VERTICAL ELECTRICAL SOUNDING; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANISM;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; IONIAN SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SICILY;

EID: 79957871070     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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