Tematica Meteoriti, comete, fenomeni astronomici

Etna 1986

Etna 1986


Stato: Mali

Anno: 1999

Notizie: Mount Etna is located on the Eastern coast of Sicily in Italy. Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe. There are over two hundred subsidiary craters and cones all around the mountain. Etna has erupted over ninety times since the eighteenth century B.C. At least ten eruptions since 141 B.C. have caused fatalities. The sheet shows the eruptive activity of 1986. Mount Etna is paired with an etched and polished slice of the Tamentit iron meteorite revealing the Widmanstatten pattern.