Gravitational collapse of Mount Etna's southeastern flank

• Published in: Science advances Vol. 4; no. 10; p. eaat9700
• Main Authors: Urlaub, Morelia, Petersen, Florian, Gross, Felix, Bonforte, Alessandro, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Guglielmino, Francesco, Krastel, Sebastian, Lange, Dietrich, Kopp, Heidrun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 01.10.2018
• Subjects: Geophysics; SciAdv r-articles

The southeastern flank of Etna volcano slides into the Ionian Sea at rates of centimeters per year. The prevailing understanding is that pressurization of the magmatic system, and not gravitational forces, controls flank movement, although this has also been proposed. So far, it has not been possibl...