The Lead-up to Mount Etna’s Most Destructive Historic Eruption (1669). Cryptic Recharge Recorded in Clinopyroxene

An understanding of destructive historic eruptions has important implications for the assessment of active plumbing systems and the processes that might precede future hazardous eruptions. At Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy), magma production and eruption frequency have increased dramatically since 1970, however, the recent eruptions are considerably less voluminous than those of the 17th century, which occurred at greater intervals. Seventeenth...