An 18 m thick volcaniclastic interval in Pantelleria Trough, Sicily Channel, deposited from a large gravitative flow during the Green Tuff eruption

Marine Geology

Volumn 231, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 201-219

  Anastasakis, George ^a   Pe Piper, Georgia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

chronology; geochemistry; Green Tuff; hyperconcentrated flow; ignimbrite; lithostratigraphy; marine volcaniclastic sedimentation; Pantelleria Trough; pantellerite; Quaternary; turbidite

Indexed keywords

GREEN TUFF; HYPERCONCENTRATED FLOW; IGNIMBRITE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTATION; PANTELLERIA TROUGH; PANTELLERITE; TURBIDITE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TURBULENCE;

VOLCANOES;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GRAIN SIZE; IGNIMBRITE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TEPHRA; TUFF; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

STRAIT OF SICILY;

EID: 33748135589     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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