Stromboli Summit area_plume (Messina)
View of the active vents in the crater terrace from Pizzo, with a small strombolian eruption from the northern NE vent, which otherwise has been constantly spattering (Image credits: Tom Pfeiffer/www.volcanodiscovery.com).
| Volcano: | Stromboli (see Stromboli at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Volcanic Plume |
| Description: | Continuos bulk degassing from the summit active craters located on the terrace of Stromboli volcano. Activity at Stromboli volcano consists of weak to mild explosions of incandescent ejecta at a rate of 3-20 per hour. |
Point of contact for this site:
Alessandro Aiuppa, alessandro.aiuppa@unipa.it (DiSTeM, University of Palermo)
Salvatore Inguaggiato, s.inguaggiato@pa.ingv.it (INGV, Palermo)
Giancarlo Tamburello, giancarlotamburello@gmail.com (DiSTeM, University of Palermo)
Bibliographic references for this site
Aiuppa, A., Burton, M., Caltabiano, T., Giudice, G., Guerrieri, S., Liuzzo, M., Murè, F., Salerno., G., 2010,Unusually large magmatic CO2 gas emissions prior to a basaltic paroxysm, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.37, n.L17303, pp. 1-5, DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043837
Burton, M., Caltabiano, T., Murè, F., Salerno, G., Randazzo, D., 2009,SO2 flux from Stromboli during the 2007 eruption: Results from the FLAME network and traverse measurements, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Researchs., , vol.182, n.n.a., pp. 214–220, DOI: 10.1017/S0022112089001497
