Insights into magma and fluid transfer at Mount Etna by a multiparametric approach: A model of the events leading to the 2011 eruptive cycle

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3519-3539

  Patane D ^a,b   Aiuppa, A ^c,d   Aloisi, M ^a   Behncke, B ^a   Cannata, A ^a   Coltelli, M ^a   Di Grazia, G ^a   Gambino, S ^a   Gurrieri, S ^c   Mattia, M ^a   Salerno, G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c SEZIONE DI PALERMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

CO2; ground deformation; Mt. Etna; SO2; volcanic tremor; volcano plumbing system

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DEFORMATION; DEGASSING; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FLUID DYNAMICS; GPS; MAGMA; PARAMETERIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84882778500     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50248     Document Type: Article

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