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Mamma
Etna's countless children |
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Lying
at the northern margin of the field of pyroclastic cones on Etna's west
flank, Monte Lepre is not a single cone but the largest in a cluster of
cones formed probably during a single eruption. This eruption, which by
some researchers was tentatively attributed to an eruption in the 17th
century, occurred actually about 1000 years earlier, around A.D. 600.
Monte Lepre is one of the larger cones in this area, rising narly 200
m above its western base and nearly 100 m above its eastern base. About
650 m to the west of Monte Lepre lies the smaller Monte Arso (the burnt
mountain - one of three cones of this name on the flanks of Mount Etna)
with a summit height of 1512 m (that is, 151 m lower than Monte Lepre),
and still 200 m to the NW rises a low nameless hill (1477 m) that may
correspond to the main effusive vent of the A.D. ~600 eruption. |
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Copyright © Boris Behncke, "Italy's Volcanoes: The Cradle of Volcanology" |
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