Kinematics of the aeolian volcanism (southern tyrrhenian sea) from geophysical and geological data

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-11

  Ventura, Guido ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EOLIAN PROCESS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; P-WAVE; RIFTING; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 84887531115     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M37.2     Document Type: Article

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