TY - JOUR
T1 - The marine activities performed within the TOMO-ETNA experiment
AU - Sulli, Attilio
AU - Zgur, Fabrizio
AU - Rapisarda, Salvatore
AU - Muccini, Filippo
AU - Fertitta, Gioacchino
AU - Facchin, Lorenzo
AU - Cotterle, Diego
AU - Carlino, Marco Firetto
AU - Patanè, Domenico
AU - Mansutti, Paolo
AU - Cultrera, Fabrizio
AU - Cavallaro, Danilo
AU - Cocchi, Luca
AU - Monaco, Clara
AU - D’Anna, Giuseppe
AU - Claude, Maria Eloisa
AU - Passafiume, Giuseppe
AU - Visnovic, Giampaolo
AU - Speciale, Stefano
AU - D’Anna, Roberto
AU - Blanos, Rita
AU - Gonzales, Maria Teresa Pedrosa
AU - D’Alessandro, Antonino
AU - Carrión, Francisco
AU - D’Alessandro, Antonino
AU - D’Alessandro, Antonino
AU - D’Alessandro, Antonino
AU - D’Alessandro, Antonino
AU - Sormani, Lorenzo
AU - Carmisciano, Cosmo
AU - Teixidó, Teresa
AU - Grassa, Fausto
AU - Karageorgis, Aristomenis P.
AU - Coltelli, Mauro
AU - Ibáñez, Jesús M.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The TOMO-ETNA experiment was planned in order to obtain a detailed geological and structural model of the continental and oceanic crust beneath Mt. Etna volcano and northeastern Sicily up to the Aeolian Islands (southern Italy), by integrating data from active and passive refraction and reflection seismic methodologies, magnetic and gravity surveys. This paper focuses on the marine activities performed within the experiment, which have been carried out in the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas, during three multidisciplinary oceanographic cruises, involving three research vessels (“Sarmiento de Gamboa”, “Galatea” and “Aegaeo”) belonging to different countries and institutions. During the offshore surveys about 9700 air-gun shots were produced to achieve a high-resolution seismic tomography through the wide-angle seismic refraction method, covering a total of nearly 2650 km of shooting tracks. To register ground motion, 27 ocean bottom seismometers were deployed, extending the inland seismic permanent network of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and a temporary network installed for the experiment. A total of 1410 km of multi-channel seismic reflection profiles were acquired to image the subsurface of the area and to achieve a 2D velocity model for each profile. Multibeam sonar and sub bottom profiler data were also collected. Moreover, a total of 2020 km of magnetic and 680 km of gravity track lines were acquired to compile magnetic and gravity anomaly maps offshore Mt. Etna volcano. Here, high-resolution images of the seafloor, as well as sediment and rock samples, were also collected using a remotely operated vehicle.
AB - The TOMO-ETNA experiment was planned in order to obtain a detailed geological and structural model of the continental and oceanic crust beneath Mt. Etna volcano and northeastern Sicily up to the Aeolian Islands (southern Italy), by integrating data from active and passive refraction and reflection seismic methodologies, magnetic and gravity surveys. This paper focuses on the marine activities performed within the experiment, which have been carried out in the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas, during three multidisciplinary oceanographic cruises, involving three research vessels (“Sarmiento de Gamboa”, “Galatea” and “Aegaeo”) belonging to different countries and institutions. During the offshore surveys about 9700 air-gun shots were produced to achieve a high-resolution seismic tomography through the wide-angle seismic refraction method, covering a total of nearly 2650 km of shooting tracks. To register ground motion, 27 ocean bottom seismometers were deployed, extending the inland seismic permanent network of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and a temporary network installed for the experiment. A total of 1410 km of multi-channel seismic reflection profiles were acquired to image the subsurface of the area and to achieve a 2D velocity model for each profile. Multibeam sonar and sub bottom profiler data were also collected. Moreover, a total of 2020 km of magnetic and 680 km of gravity track lines were acquired to compile magnetic and gravity anomaly maps offshore Mt. Etna volcano. Here, high-resolution images of the seafloor, as well as sediment and rock samples, were also collected using a remotely operated vehicle.
KW - Etna offshore
KW - Geophysics
KW - Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas
KW - Marine geophysical data acquisition
KW - Scientific cruise report
KW - Etna offshore
KW - Geophysics
KW - Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas
KW - Marine geophysical data acquisition
KW - Scientific cruise report
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/226701
UR - http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/download/7081/6591
M3 - Article
VL - 59
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - ANNALS OF GEOPHYSICS
JF - ANNALS OF GEOPHYSICS
SN - 1593-5213
ER -