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Travel time residuals and high frequency attenuation of regional and teleseismic events recorded at a seismic network around Mount Etna, Sicily, indicate the presence of a large volume of partial melt beneath the volcano. Petrographical evidence confirms that the anomaly is the main magma storage system and site of crystal differentiation beneath the volcano.
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Sharp, A., Davis, P. & Gray, F. A low velocity zone beneath Mount Etna and magma storage. Nature 287, 587–591 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/287587a0
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