Predicting the impact of lava flows at Mount Etna, Italy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Cristi, Gino M ^a   Avolio, Maria V ^a   Behncke, Boris ^b   D'Ambrosio, Donato ^a   Di Gregorio, Salvatore ^a   Lupiano, Valeria ^a   Neri, Marco ^b   Rongo, Rocco ^a   Spataro, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAVA FLOW; MAPPING; PREDICTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 79959209192     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006431     Document Type: Article

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