Precursory phenomena and destructive events related to the Late Bronze Age Minoan (Thera, Greece) and AD 79 (Vesuvius, Italy) Plinian eruptions; inferences from the stratigraphy in the archaeological areas

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 171, Issue , 2000, Pages 123-141

  Cioni, Raffaello ^a,c   Gurioli, Lucia ^a   Sbrana, Alessandro ^a   Vougioukalakis, Georges ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL EXPLORATION   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; PHREATOMAGMATISM; PLINIAN ERUPTION; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

GREECE; ITALY;

PLINIA; ROMAN; THERA;

EID: 0034034301     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.171.01.11     Document Type: Article

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