Snow-capped Mount Etna, seen here from the SE, rises more than 3 km above the coastline of Sicily. The massive basaltic stratovolcano is 60 km by 40 km in width. Its summit is truncated by several small calderas, and the Valle de Bove, a 5 x 10 km horseshoe-shaped depression created by incremental landsliding, extends to the eastern coast. Persistent summit eruptive activity is punctuated by intermittent eruptions from cones and fissures that dot its massive flanks.

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Etna