Etna Bocca Nuova crater (Sicily, Italy)
The eastern pit crater of Bocca Nuova, Etna (Image credits: Tom Pfeiffer/www.volcanodiscovery.com)
| Volcano: | Etna (see Etna at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
|---|---|
| Type: | Volcanic Plume |
| Description: | Bocca Nuova crater has been formed in 1968 inside the main central crater of Mt Etna volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world which is in an almost constant state of activity with a persistent plume emission, more or less water-rich. |
Point of contact for this site:
Alessandro Aiuppa, alessandro.aiuppa@unipa.it (DiSTeM, University of Palermo)
Giuseppe Salerno, giuseppe.salerno@ct.ingv.it (INGV, Catania)
Bibliographic references for this site
Aiuppa, A., Federico, C., Giudice, G., Gurrieri, S., Liuzzo, M., Shinohara, H., Favara, R., Valenza, M., 2006,Rates of carbon dioxide plume degassing from Mount Etna volcano, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol.111, n.B09207, pp. 1-8, DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004307
Aiuppa, A., Giudice, G., Gurrieri, S., Liuzzo, M., Burton, M., Caltabiano, T., McGonigle, A.J.S., Salerno, G., Shinohara, H., Valenza, M, 2008,Total volatile flux from Mount Etna, Geophisical Research Letters, vol.35, n.L24302, pp. 1-5, DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035871
Aiuppa, A., Moretti, R., Federico, C., Giudice, G., Gurrieri, S., Liuzzo, M., Papale, P., Shinohara, H., Valenza, M. , 2007,Forecasting Etna eruptions by real-time observation of volcanic gas composition, Geology, vol.35, n.12, pp. 1115-1118, DOI: 10.1130/G24149A.1
