Burial of Emperor Augustus' villa at Somma Vesuviana (Italy) by post-79 AD Vesuvius eruptions and reworked (lahars and stream flow) deposits

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 158, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 445-466

  Perrotta, Annamaria ^a   Scarpati, Claudio ^a   Luongo, Giuseppe ^a   Aoyagi, Masanori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b National Museum of Art   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emperor Augustus' villa; impact of explosive eruptions; lahars; Vesuvius eruptions

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MOLTEN MATERIALS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

EXPLOSIVE ERUPTIONS; LAHARS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANICLASTIC MATERIAL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; LAHAR; ROMAN ERA; STREAMFLOW; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VESUVIUS;

PLINIA;

EID: 33750389194     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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