Very shallow dyke intrusion and potential slope failure imaged by ground deformation: The 28 December 2014 eruption on Mount Etna

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2727-2733

  Bonforte, Alessandro ^a   Guglielmino, Francesco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

dyke intrusions; GPS; modeling; Sentinel 1A DInSAR; slope failure; volcanic eruptions

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS; SLOPE STABILITY; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VOLCANOES;

D-INSAR; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY; DYKE INTRUSION; ERUPTIVE ACTIVITY; FIRE-FOUNTAINS; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; SLOPE FAILURE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; DIKE; FLOW FIELD; GPS; LAVA FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLOPE FAILURE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84929502765     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063462     Document Type: Article

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