Magma, faults, and gravitational loading at Mount Etna: The 2002-2003 eruptive period

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Aloisi, Marco ^a   Mattia, Mario ^a   Monaco, Carmelo ^b   Pulvirenti, Fabio ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FAULTING; HETEROGENEITY; MAGMATISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POISSON RATIO; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; YOUNG MODULUS;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 80051984769     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007909     Document Type: Article

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