Revealed: Why Sicily's Mount Etna Is Slowly Sliding in the Ocean (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Revealed: Why Sicily's Mount Etna Is Slowly Sliding in the Ocean (3 of 4)

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Panoramic view of the "Riviera dei Ciclopi" at Aci Trezza, where the fault that marks the boundary between stable and unstable sector dives into the sea among the islets. The bigger island to the left is Lachea (on the unstable flank). 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. Alessandro Bonforte]

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