Vulcano Palizzi area (Sicilia, Italy)

Palizzi area, Vulcano island (Image credits: Paolo Madonia).

Volcano: Vulcano Island (see Vulcano Island at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab)
Type: Soil Diffuse Emission
Description: SW base of La Fossa cone, known for its high CO2 soil concentration and release.


Point of contact for this site:
Maria Luisa Carapezza, marialuisa.carapezza@ingv.it (INGV)
Salvatore Inguaggiato, s.inguaggiato@pa.ingv.it (INGV, Palermo)

No Data Available.
Number of measurements: 9

Bibliographic references for this site

Carapezza, M.L., Barberi, F., Ranaldi, M., Ricci, T., Tarchini, L., Barrancos, J., Fischer, C., Perez, N., Weber, K., Di Piazza, A., Gattuso, A., 2011,Diffuse CO2 soil degassing and CO2 and H2S concentrations in air and related hazards at Vulcano Island (Aeolian arc, Italy), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol.207, pp. 130-144, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2011.06.010


Inguaggiato, S., Mazot, A., Diliberto, I.S., Inguaggiato, C., Madonia, P., Rouwet, D., Vita, F., 2012,Total CO2 output from Vulcano island (Aeolian Islands, Italy), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, vol.13, n.2, pp. Q02012, DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003920


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