Etna Voragine crater (Sicilia, Italy)
Degassing from Voragine crater, Mt Etna volcano
| Volcano: | Etna (see Etna at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Volcanic Plume |
| Description: | Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is in an almost constant state of activity. In June 2013, Mt. Etna was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In the specific, the Voragine crater has been formed in 1945 inside the main central crater of the volcano. |
Point of contact for this site:
Alessandro Aiuppa, alessandro.aiuppa@unipa.it (DiSTeM, University of Palermo)
Giuseppe Salerno, giuseppe.salerno@ct.ingv.it (INGV, Catania)
Giancarlo Tamburello, giancarlotamburello@gmail.com (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., Giudice, G., Gurrieri, S., Liuzzo, M., Burton, M., Caltabiano, T., McGonigle, A.J.S., Salerno, G., Shinohara, H., Valenza, M, 2008,Total volatile flux from Mount Etna, Geophisical Research Letters, vol.35, n.L24302, pp. 1-5, DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035871
