Book edited by Aldo Zollo, Paolo Capuano and Margherita Corciulo, 2006, ISBN 978-88-89972-09-0.
The National Group of Volcanology (GNV) of INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Volcanology) has launched and coordinated in 1999 a Framework
Program prepared by an ad hoc Committee of the Italian Department of Civil Protection. The latter was also the organization financially supporting the
Program and the main end user.
One of the most successful projects of the whole Program was related to the line: Innovative and integrated methods to study the deep structure of volcanoes and was applied to the Campi Flegrei caldera, one of the areas with the highest volcanic risk in the world. The Project involved 9 Research Units, produced several high quality deliverables and was very effective in combining the development of innovative methodologies and its application to the analysis of high quality local earthquake data collected during the 1983-84 seismic crisis in the Phlegraean areas combined with those from a high resolution offshore reflection survey (SERAPIS Project). with gravity and with laboratory rock physics data.
The Evaluation Committee ranked this Project among those which met or exceeded the expected objectives. It further stressed out that this project shows how modern geophysical methodologies can be developed and used toward a better imaging of the internal structure of a volcano and an improved
understanding of its functioning. GNV hopes that this volume can be an useful addition to the understanding of the dynamics and the structural control of the phenomena occurring in this type of volcanoes.
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