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Quaternary Tephrochronology in the Mediterranean Region

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Abstract

Quaternary volcanism in the Mediterranean region was highly explosive, especially in the Roman-Campanian province, the Aeolian Islands and the Hellenic island arc. Pantelleria and Etna were less explosive. Tephra layers originating from all of these volcanoes have been encountered in Quaternary sediments. A summary of tephra layer occurrences in the Mediterranean Quaternary record is given in this paper. Correlation results and petrographic characterization techniques are described.

Examples for widely distributed tephra layers come mainly from sediment coring in the deep sea, but include examples on land several hundred kilometers from the inferred source volcanoes. Identified sources are mainly from the Campanian province, including Ischia, the Phlegrean volcanic area and Somma-Vesuvius. Others are from Pantelleria, Lipari, Etna and Santorini.

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    Jörg Keller

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  1. Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    S. Self

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, England

    R. S. J. Sparks

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Keller, J. (1981). Quaternary Tephrochronology in the Mediterranean Region. In: Self, S., Sparks, R.S.J. (eds) Tephra Studies. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8537-7_14

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