Etna Salinelle Vallone Salato (Sicily, Italy)
View of a mud pool in the Salinelle of Vallone Salato, Etna. Fluids are emitted through marly clays of the foredeep sedimentary deposits (Image credits: Emanuela Bagnato).
| Volcano: | Etna (see Etna at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Soil Diffuse Emission |
| Description: | Fluids emitted through marly clays of the foredeep sedimentary deposits are composed of a gas phase and hypersaline waters that often pond in pools that range in size from centimeters to meters in diameter. |
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 Vallone Salato_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
