Structural analysis of the eruptive fissures at Mount Etna (Italy)

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 464-479

  Neri, Marco ^a   Acocella, Valerio ^b   Behncke, Boris ^a   Giammanco, Salvatore ^a   Mazzarini, Francesco ^c   Rust, Derek ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; FISSURE; MAGMA; RIFT ZONE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84855839163     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-5332     Document Type: Article

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