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Basalt from
Mount Etna, Etna Volcanic Complex, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy


Locality type:Stratovolcano
Classification
Type:Basalt
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Basalt data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Etna, Etna Volcanic Complex, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1388035
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1388035:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Basalt
25.8km (16.0 miles) ā“˜Rupe di Aci Castello, Aci Castello, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
References
Chester, D. K., Duncan, A. M., Guest, J. E., & Kilburn, C. 1985. Mount Etna: the anatomy of a volcano. Chapman and Hall, London.
Di Sabatino, B. 1977. Significato petrologico della presenza di leucite in lave basaltiche di stirpe atlantica: eruzione dell'Etna della primavera del 1971. Periodico di Mineralogia, 46, 45-57.
Corsaro, R. A., Cristofolini, R. (1996) Origin and differentiation of recent basaltic magmas from Mount Etna. Mineralogy and Petrology, 57 (1) 1-21 doi:10.1007/bf01161619
Corsaro, R. A., & Cristofolini, R. (1997). Geology, geochemistry and mineral chemistry of tholeiitic to transitional Etnean magmas. Acta Vulcanologica, 9, 55-66.
Tanguy, Jean-Claude, Condomines, Michel, Kieffer, Guy (1997) Evolution of the Mount Etna magma: Constraints on the present feeding system and eruptive mechanism. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 75 (3) 221-250 doi:10.1016/s0377-0273(96)00065-0
Coltelli, Mauro, Del Carlo, Paola, Vezzoli, Luigina (2000) Stratigraphic constraints for explosive activity in the past 100 ka at Etna Volcano, Italy. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 89 (3) 665-677 doi:10.1007/s005310000117
Guest, J. E., Cole, P. D., Duncan, A. M., & Chester, D. K. (2003). Volcanoes of southern Italy (p. 284). London: Geological Society.
Armienti, P. I. E. T. R. O., Tonarini, S., Dā€™Orazio, M. A. S. S. I. M. O., & Innocenti, F. A. B. R. I. Z. I. O. (2004). Genesis and evolution of Mt. Etna alkaline lavas: petrological and Sr-Nd-B isotope constraints. Periodico di Mineralogia, 73(Special issue 1), 29-52.
(2005) Plio-Quaternary Volcanism in Italy. Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/3-540-29092-3
Branca, Stefano, Coltelli, Mauro, De Beni, Emanuela, Wijbrans, Jan (2008) Geological evolution of Mount Etna volcano (Italy) from earliest products until the first central volcanism (between 500 and 100Ā ka ago) inferred from geochronological and stratigraphic data. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 97 (1) 135-152 doi:10.1007/s00531-006-0152-0
 
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