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Authors: Del Negro, C.* 
Ferrucci, F.* 
Napoli, R.* 
Title: Marine magnetic investigation of the submarine base of Mt. Etna and Hyblean Plateau
Issue Date: 2002
Series/Report no.: 2/45 (2002)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/660
Keywords: magnetic survey
magnetic modeling
Mt. Etna
Hyblean Plateau
Subject Classification04. Solid Earth::04.05. Geomagnetism::04.05.03. Global and regional models 
Abstract: Two marine magnetic surveys were carried out during 1997 and 1999 in the Ionian Sea off the eastern coast of Sicily to investigate the magnetic structures of the eastern base of Mt. Etna and the Hyblean Plateau. The investigated area is approximately 85 km long and 15 km wide, running from North to South, in the Western Ionian Sea. Models along two profiles parallel to the coast and over the entire area provide a possible distribution of volcanic bodies and volcaniclastic deposits off the eastern coast of Sicily and their relations with the sedimentary substratum. 3D modeling suggests the presence of magnetized bodies, inserted in the sedimentary substratum, plausibly related to Hyblean Plateau volcanism in the south sector and to Mt. Etna activity in the north. We speculate that the Malta Escarpment could have produced preferential ways for magma ascents off the Hyblean Plateau. The spatial continuity of the volcanism affecting the entire investigated area could testify spatial transition between Hyblean and Etnean volcanism supporting the hypothesis that the magma process migrated with time from south-east to north-west.
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