Intrusive mechanism of the 2008-2009 Mt. Etna eruption: Constraints by tomographic images and stress tensor analysis

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 229-230, Issue , 2012, Pages 50-63

  Alparone, Salvatore ^a   Barberi, Graziella ^a   Cocina, Ornella ^a   Giampiccolo, Elisabetta ^a   Musumeci, Carla ^a   Patanè, Domenico ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attenuation tomography; Mt. Etna; Stress tensor; Velocity tomography; Volcanic eruptions

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION TOMOGRAPHY; MT. ETNA; STRESS TENSORS; VELOCITY TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EARTHQUAKES; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

TENSORS;

IGNEOUS INTRUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84860274227     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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