Maccalube di Aragona (Sicily, Italy)
Aragona maccalube
| Type: | Bubbling Water |
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| Description: | The area is located less than 2 km south respect the homonym inhabited center, in Agrigento province. The manifestations have a mean altitude of s 265m a.s.l. and consist in a field of mud volcanoes (with an heigth ranging from few centimetres to half a meter) and some bubbling pools with a maximum diameter of 3.5m, covering an area of 1.4km2 |
Point of contact for this site:
Mariano Valenza, mvale@unipa.it (University of Palermo, DiSTeM)
| Measurement | date (d/m/y) | Added by | Added on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maccalube di Aragona_06052001 | 6/5/2001 | Emanuela Bagnato | Oct. 19, 2014 |
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
Favara, R., C. Gioia, F. Grassa, S. Inguaggiato, F. Proietto, and M. Valenza , 2001,Studio geochimico delle manifestazioni fluide presenti nell’area della riserva naturale integrale "Maccalube di Aragona, Nat, Siciliano, vol.25, pp. 137– 154
Grassa F., Capasso G., Favara R., Inguaggiato S., Faber E. and Valenza M. , 2004,Molecular and isotopic composition of free hydrocarbon gases from Sicily, Italy, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.31, n.6, DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019362
