Revealed: Why Sicily's Mount Etna Is Slowly Sliding in the Ocean (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Revealed: Why Sicily's Mount Etna Is Slowly Sliding in the Ocean (2 of 4)

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Seafloor geodetic station ready for being lowered to the seafloor for long-term monitoring campaign. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 10, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Urlaub at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Gravitational collapse of Mount Etna's southeastern flank."

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[Credit: Dr. Felix Gross]

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