Imaging the multi-level magma reservoir at Mt. Etna volcano (Italy)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Aloisi, Marco ^a   Mattia, Mario ^a   Ferlito, Carmelo ^b   Palano, Mimmo ^a   Bruno, Valentina ^a   Cannavò, Flavio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLUMBING; VOLCANOES;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; DEFORMATION FIELD; GPS DATA; GPS NETWORK; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MAGMA RESERVOIRS; MT. ETNA; MULTI-LEVEL; NON-UNIFORM DEFORMATION; OVERPRESSURE; PLUMBING SYSTEMS; PRESSURE SOURCE; STORAGE VOLUMES; TIME INTERVAL; VOLATILES CONTENT; VOLCANIC HAZARDS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; DEFLATION; DEFORMATION; GPS; IMAGING METHOD; MAGMA CHAMBER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERPRESSURE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 80051995527     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048488     Document Type: Article

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