Maccalube di Bissana (Sicily, Italy)
Bissana's maccalube
| Type: | Bubbling Water |
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| Description: | The site is located on the southern side of Mount Sara, in "Contrada Cavalieri" and consist in a little mud volcanoes; it can be reached by the local road (SP 31 Cattolica - Cianciana), following for the direction " Bissana". Far few kilometers there is another area located on a hilly relief, immediately sets to north respect Mount Bissana; these manifestations consist in two bubbling salty water polls (named "abisso grande" and "abisso piccolo") wide less than 10 meters, with occasional mud volcanoes. |
Point of contact for this site:
Mariano Valenza, mvale@unipa.it (University of Palermo, DiSTeM)
Bibliographic references for this site
Etiope G., A. Caracausi, R. Favara, F. Italiano, C. Baciu, 2002,Methane emission from the mud volcanoes of Sicily (Italy), Geophysical Research Letters, vol.29, n.8, DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014340
