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The Recent Eruption of Etna

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DURING the last ten years Etna has exhibited various phenomena of considerable interest, especially at the lateral crater which appeared in May 1911 on the north-eastern slope of the central cone at the 3100 metre contour. This was the forerunner of a more violent eruption in September of 1911, when the new north-east crater became more active than the central one.

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PONTE, G. The Recent Eruption of Etna. Nature 112, 546–548 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112546a0

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