The case of the 1981 eruption of Mount Etna: An example of very fast moving lava flows

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Coltelli, Mauro ^a   Marsella, Maria ^b   Proietti, Cristina ^a   Scifoni, Silvia ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

discharge rate; Etna; lava flow eruption

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; VOLCANOES;

ACTIVE VOLCANOES; ADVANCE RATES; DATA SETS; DISCHARGE RATES; ETNA; FLANK ERUPTIONS; LAVA FLOWS; MAGMA RESERVOIRS; MAXIMUM VALUES; MOUNT ETNA; SENSITIVE AREA; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME-AVERAGED;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

FLOW FIELD; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA CHAMBER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84856009160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003876     Document Type: Article

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