Send me your questions for Dr. Boris Behncke on Italian volcanism

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Etna erupting in November 2002.

If you have any questions for Dr. Boris Behncke, who runs Italy's Volcanoes along with the volcanology page for the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania, please send them in to me at

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. I've got some good question so far!

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