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| Titel |
Will Mount Etna erupt before EGU General Assembly 2017? |
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Marco Aloisi, Flavio Cannavò, Mimmo Palano |
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EGU General Assembly 2017
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en
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In: GRA - Volume 19 (2017) |
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250148117
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2017-12346.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Mount Etna has historically recorded a long and very various series of eruptions. The eruptions have mostly shown an episodic character, despite a near continuous supply of magma. In the last years, activity at Mount Etna seems to follow a recurrent pattern characterized by very similar “inflation/paroxysmal events/deflation” dynamic. The paroxysms occurred in December 2015 and May 2016, which involved the “Voragine” crater, can be considered among the most violent observed during the last two decades. These events showed high lava fountains, in the order of hundreds of meters in height, and eruption columns, several kilometres high. A new cycle, characterized by a clear similar inflation of the whole volcano edifice is currently underway. Here, we analyse these recent volcanic cycles and discuss about a) a possible upper bound for the inflation dynamic, above which a paroxysmal event occurs, b) the comparison of the models generating the considered lava fountains and c) a possible time-predictable model of the expected paroxysmal event. |
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