Etna North East crater (Sicily, Italy)
North East crater, Etna (Image credits: Tom Pfeiffer/www.volcanodiscovery.com).
| Volcano: | Etna (see Etna at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Volcanic Plume |
| Description: | The North East crater has been formed in 1911 inside the main central crater of the Mt Etna volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world which is in an almost constant state of activity with a persistent plume emission, more or less water-rich. |
Point of contact for this site:
Alessandro Aiuppa, alessandro.aiuppa@unipa.it (DiSTeM, University of Palermo)
Bibliographic references for this site
Aiuppa, A., Federico, C., Giudice, G., Gurrieri, S., Liuzzo, M., Shinohara, H., Favara, R., Valenza, M., 2006,Rates of carbon dioxide plume degassing from Mount Etna volcano, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.111, n.B09207, pp. 1-8, DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004307
Aiuppa, A., Moretti, R., Federico, C., Giudice, G., Gurrieri, S., Liuzzo, M., Papale, P., Shinohara, H., Valenza, M. , 2007,Forecasting Etna eruptions by real-time observation of volcanic gas composition, Geology, vol.35, n.12, pp. 1115-1118, DOI: 10.1130/G24149A.1
La Spina, A., Burton, M., Salerno, G., 2010,Unravelling the processes controlling gas emissions from the central and northeast craters of Mt. Etna, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol.198, n.n.d., pp. 368-376, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.09.018
