Etna Salinelle Stadium (Sicily, Italy)
Salinelle mud volcano, Paternò, Italy (Image credits: Christophe Crozet).
| Volcano: | Etna (see Etna at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Soil Diffuse Emission |
| Description: | Soil diffuse degassing with high CO2 emissions of clearly magmatic origin occurring within a large area characterized by mud volcanoes, with temperature of the muddy waters varying from 16 to 18 ° C and only in some paroxysmal phases (1866, 1879 and 1954) have been recorded temperatures between 46 and 49 ° C. |
Point of contact for this site:
Salvatore Giammanco, salvatore.giammanco@ct.ingv.it (INGV, Catania)
| Measurement | date (d/m/y) | Added by | Added on |
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| Etna Salinelle Stadium_072005 | None/7/2005 | Emanuela Bagnato | Dec. 2, 2013 |
Bibliographic references for this site
Giammanco, S., Parello, F., Gambardella, B., Schifano, R., Pizzullo, S., Galante, G., 2007,Focused and diffuse effluxes of CO2 from mud volcanoes and mofettes south of Mt. Etna (Italy), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol.165, n.n.d., pp. 46-63, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.04.010
