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)

Number of measurements: 5
Measurement date (d/m/y) Added by Added on
Etna Bocca Nuova crater21/7/2008 Emanuela Bagnato Nov. 26, 2013
Etna Bocca Nuova crater3/8/2009 Emanuela Bagnato Nov. 27, 2013
Etna Bocca Nuova crater12/5/2006 Emanuela Bagnato Nov. 27, 2013
Etna Bocca Nuova crater19/6/2006 Emanuela Bagnato Nov. 27, 2013
Etna Bocca Nuova crater5/7/2006 Emanuela Bagnato Nov. 27, 2013


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


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