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Carbon dioxide emissions from Specchio di Venere, Pantelleria, Italy

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We have mapped the diffuse CO2 efflux from the Specchio di Venere Lake area using the accumulation chamber method. We calculated a CO2 emission of 43 ± 5 t day−1 for the area studied, accounting for both diffuse degassing from soil and bubbling through the lake. We also present data on the water composition of Specchio di Venere Lake, the Polla 3 spring, and Liuzza well. On the basis of water chemistry, two physical-chemical processes, evaporation and mineral precipitation of carbonate species, are invoked to explain the CO2 degassing for the lake area.

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Acknowledgments

This work is a part of the PhD project of the first author supported by CONACYT grant #350833. We thank Dr. Carlo Cardellini for help with the SGS method, and Salvatore Francofonte, Aldo Sollami, Ygor Oliveri, and Mariano Tantillo for laboratory work at INGV, Palermo. We thank the two anonymous reviewers of the original manuscript for their comments.

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  1. Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Del Coyoacán, CP 04510, DF, Mexico

    Mariana P. Jácome Paz & Yuri Taran

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Italy

    Salvatore Inguaggiato, Fabio Vita & Giovanella Pecoraino

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Paz, M.P.J., Inguaggiato, S., Taran, Y. et al. Carbon dioxide emissions from Specchio di Venere, Pantelleria, Italy. Bull Volcanol 78, 29 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-016-1023-6

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