Mount Etna eruptions of the last 2,750 years: Revised chronology and location through archeomagnetic and 226Ra-230Th dating

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-83

  Tanguy, Jean Claude ^a,c   Condomines, Michel ^b   Le Goff, Maxime ^a   Chillemi, Vito ^c   La Delfa, Santo ^c,d   Patanè, Giuseppe ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d Osservatorio Meteorologico Geodinamico e Ambientale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Archeomagnetism; Chronology of eruptions; Etna; Magmatic evolution; Radium dating; Volcanic hazards; Volcano mapping

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LAVA FLOW; SECULAR VARIATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548348989     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-007-0121-x     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. Alessi G (1832-1835) Storia critica delle eruzioni dell'Etna. Atti Acc Gioenia di Sci Nat in Catania, ser I 3:17-75, 4:23-74, 5:43-72, 6:85-116, 7:21-65, 8:99-148, 9:121-206
2. Amico VM (1740-1746) Catana illustrata, sive Sacra et Civilis Urbis Catanae Historia. S. Trento, Catanae, vol 4
3. Behncke B, Neri M, Nagay A (2005) Lava flow hazard at Mount Etna (Italy): New data from a GIS-based study. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 396:189-208, DOI 10.1130/2005.2396(13)
4. Bembo P (1495) De Aetna. Impres. In: Aedibus Aldi Romani, mense Februario anno MVD, Venetiis. Bibl. Nazionale di San Marco, Venice
5. Bérard V (1924) L'Odyssée, T. II (chants VIII-XV). Soc d'Édition Les Belles Lettres, Paris
6. Bergk T (1873) Die eruptionen des Aetna. Philologus 32:136-139
7. Bollandus I, Henschenius G (1643) Acta Sanctorum, T I, Februarius. Apud I Mersium, Antverpiae (Anvers), p 618
8. Boschi E, Guidoboni E (2001) Catania, terremoti e lave, dal mondo antico alla fine del Novecento. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Ed. Compositori, Bologna
9. Branca S, Del Carlo P (2004) Eruptions of Mt. Etna during the past 3,200 years: A revised compilation integrating the historical and stratigraphic records. AGU Geophys Mon 143:1-27. DOI 10.1029/143GM02
10. Branca S, Del Carlo P (2005) Types of eruptions of Etna Volcano AD 1670-2003: Implications for short-term eruptive behaviour. Bull Volcanol 67:732-742, DOI 10.1007/s00445-005-0412-z
11. Branca S, Coltelli M, Groppelli G, Lentini F (2004) Geological map of Mount Etna (Italy) 1:50,000 scale. 32nd International Geological Congress (32IGC) August 20-28, 2004, Florence, Italy
12. Bucur I (1994) The direction of the terrestrial magnetic field in France during the last 21 centuries. Phys Earth Planet Int 87:95-109
13. Cafarella L, De Santis A, Meloni A (1992) Secular variation in Italy from historical geomagnetic field measurements. Phys Earth Planet Int 73:206-221
14. Carrera P (1636) Il Mongibello descritto in tre libri. G. Rossi, Catania
15. Chaix E (1892-1902) Carta volcanologica e topografica dell'Etna (scale 1/ 100 000). Comptoir minéralogique et géologique suisse, Genève
16. Chester DK, Duncan AM, Guest JE, Kilburn CRJ (1985) Mount Etna: The anatomy of a volcano. Chapman and Hall, London
17. Chester DK, Duncan AM, Guest JE, Johnston PA, Smolenaars JJL (2000) Human response to Etna volcano during the classical period. In: McGuire W et al (eds) The archaeology of geological catastrophes. Geol Soc London Pub 171:179-188
18. Chevallier R (1925) L'aimantation des laves de l'Etna et l'orientation du champ terrestre en Sicile. PhD Thesis, University of Paris, Paris
19. Chillemi V (1998) Laurea Thesis (in Italian), University of Catania, Catania, pp 1-131
20. Clocchiatti R, Joron JL, Treuil M (1988) The role of selective alkali contamination in the evolution of recent historic lavas of Mt. Etna. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 34:241-249
21. Clocchiatti R, Condomines M, Guénot N, Tanguy JC (2004) Magma changes at Mount Etna: The 2001 and 2002-2003 eruptions. Earth Planet Sci Lett 226:397-414, DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.07.039
22. CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (1979) Carta Geologica del Monte Etna (scale 1/50 000)
23. Coltelli M, Del Carlo P, Vezzoli L (1998) The discovery of a Plinian basaltic eruption of Roman age at Etna volcano (Italy). Geology 26:1095-1098
24. Condomines M, Tanguy JC, Michaud V (1995) Magma dynamics at Mt. Etna: constraints from U-Th-Ra-Pb radioactive disequilibria and Sr isotopes in historical lavas. Earth Planet Sci Lett 132:25-41
25. 226Ra/Ba dating of Holocene volcanic rocks: Application to Mt. Etna and Merapi volcanoes. Earth Planet Sci Lett 230:289-300, DOI 10.1016/ j.epsl.2004.12.002
26. Conti N (1581) Universae historiae ab anno salutis nostrae 1545 usque ad annum 1581, apud Damianum Zenarum (Bibl. Nazionale di San Marco, Venice), also in Italian (1589)
27. Del Carlo P, Vezzoli L, Coltelli M (2004) Last 100-ka tephrostratigraphic record of Mount Etna. AGU Geophys Mon 143:77-89, DOI 10.1029/143GM06
28. Evans M, Hoye GS (2005) Archaeomagnetic results from southern Italy and their bearing on geomagnetic secular variation. Phys Earth Planet Int 151:155-162, DOI 10.1016/j.pepi.2005.02.2002
29. Fazello T (1558) De Aetna monte et ejus ignibus. In: Apud I.M. Maidam et F. De rebus Siculis decades duae. Carreram AD MDLVIII. Bibl. Nationale, Paris, pp 56-63
30. Ferrara F (1818) Descrizione dell'Etna con la storia delle eruzioni e il catalogo dei prodotti. Palermo presso Lorenzo Dato, pp 1-256
31. Filoteo A (1590) Aetnae topographia atque ejus incendiorum historia. Venetiis Muschius exc., pp 1-32
32. Fisher RA (1953) Dispersion on a sphere. Proc R Soc Lond 217(A):295-305
33. Gallet Y, Genevey A, Le Goff M (2002) Three millennia of directional variation of the Earth's magnetic field in Western Europe as revealed by archeological artefacts. Phys Earth Planet Int 131:81-89
34. Gallet Y, Genevey A, Courtillot V (2003) On the possible occurrence of 'archeomagnetic jerks' in the geomagnetic field over the past three millennia. Earth Planet Sci Lett 214:237-242, DOI 10.1016/ S0012-821X(03)00362-5
35. Guirand F (1935) Mythologie générale. Larousse, Paris
36. Huré J (1957) Histoire de la Sicile. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris
37. Jackson A, Jonkers ART, Walker MR (2000) Four centuries of geomagnetic secular variation from historical records. Phil Trans R Soc Lond A 358:957-990
38. Johnston PA (2005) Volcanoes in classical mythology. In: Balmuth M et al (eds) Cultural response to the volcanic landscape. Archaeological Institute of America, Colloquia & Conference papers 8:297-310
39. Joron JL, Treuil M (1984) Etude géochimique et pétrogenèse des laves de l'Etna, Sicile, Italie. Bull Volcanol 47:1125-1144
40. Kieffer G (1985) Evolution structurale et dynamique de l'Etna. PhD Thesis, Univ Clermont-Ferrand
41. Lanza R, Meloni A, Tema E (2005) Historical measurements of the Earth's magnetic field compared with remanence directions from lava flows in Italy over the last four centuries. Phys Earth Planet Int 148:97-107, DOI 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.08.005
42. Le Goff M, Kovacheva M, Lanos P, Daly L (1998) Comparison of three smoothing algorithms performed on the eight millennia archeomagnetic data from Bulgaria. 22nd General Assembly Eur Geophys Soc, Vienna, Austria
43. Mazon P (1928) Hésiode: Théogonie. Soc d'Édition Les Belles Lettres, Paris
44. Monaco C, Tortorici L (1999) Carta geologica dell'area urbana di Catania (scale 1/10 000). Univ. and Comune di Catania, stampa SELCA, Firenze
45. Muratori LV (1738) Fragmentum Siculae historiae, ab anno MCCLXXXVII usque ad MCCCCXXXIV. Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, T. 24. Mediolani, Milan, pp 1089-1091
46. Murray JB (1990) High-level magma transport and storage at Mount Etna volcano as deduced from ground deformation measurements. In: Ryan MP (ed) Magma transport and storage. Wiley, New York, pp 357-383
47. Neri M, Acocella V, Behncke B, Maiolino V, Ursino A, Velardita R (2005) Contrasting triggering mechanisms of the 2001 and 2002-2003 eruptions of Mount Etna (Italy). J Volcanol Geotherm Res 144:235-255, DOI 10.1016/ j.jvolgeores.2004.11.025
48. Patanè G, La Delfa S, Tanguy JC (2004) L'Etna e il mondo dei vulcani. Maimone, Catania
49. Principe C, Tanguy JC, Arrighi S, Paiotti A, Le Goff M, Zoppi U (2004) Chronology of Vesuvius'activity from AD 79 to 1631 based on archeomagnetism of lavas and historical sources. Bull Volcanol 66:703-724, DOI 10.1007/s00445-004-0348-8
50. Puech A (1922) Pindare: Pythiques. Soc d'édition Les Belles Lettres, Paris
51. Recupero G (1815) Storia naturale e generale dell'Etna, vol. 2 (opera postuma). Stamperia della Regia Università, Catania
52. Rodwell GF (1878) Etna, a history of the mountain and of its eruptions. C Kegan Paul & Co, London
53. Rolph TC, Shaw J, Guest JE (1987) Geomagnetic field variations as a dating tool: Application to Sicilian lavas. J Archaeol Sci 14:215-225
54. Romano R, Sturiale C (1982) The historical eruptions of Mt. Etna (volcanological data). Mem Soc Geol Ital 23:75-97
55. Sartorius von Waltershausen W (1848-1859) Atlas des Aetna (12 maps, scale 1/50 000). Gottingue, Berlin, Weimar
56. Sartorius von Waltershausen W (1879) Karte der Valle del Bove am Aetna (scale 1/15 000). Von Lasaulx W Engelmann, Leipzig
57. Sartorius von Waltershausen W (1880) Der Aetna, Von Lasaulx W Engelmann, Leipzig, vol 1
58. Sciuto Patti C (1872) Carta geologica delle città di Catania e dintorni di essa. Atti Acc Gioenia Sci Nat in Catania 8(III)
59. Silvaggio M (1542) Descriptio montis Aetnei cum suis horrendis ignibus. Opus de tribus peregrinis. Venetiis anno virginei partus MDXLII. Bibl. Nazionale di San Marco, Venice, pp 154-161
60. Silvestri O (1879) Sulla doppia eruzione e i terremoti dell'Etna nel 1879, 2 a edizione ampliata del 1° rapporto al R. Governo. Galatola, Catania, pp 1-46
61. Stothers RB, Rampino MR (1983) Volcanic eruptions in the Mediterranean before AD 630, from written and archeological sources. J Geophys Res 88:6357-6371
62. Tanguy JC (1969) Sur l'aimantation des laves de l'Etna et l'orientation du champ magnétique terrestre en Sicile de 1300 à 1800. Comptes rendus Acad Sci Paris 268B:197-200
63. Tanguy JC (1980) L'Etna: Étude pétrologique et paléomagnétique. PhD Thesis, University of Paris, Paris, 6
64. Tanguy JC (1981) Les éruptions historiques de l'Etna: Chronologie et localisation. Bull Volcanol 47:585-640
65. Tanguy JC, Le Goff M (2004) Distortion of the geomagnetic field in volcanic terrains: An experimental study of the Mount Etna stratovolcano. Phys Earth Planet Int 141:59-70, DOI 10.1016/ j.pepi.2003.10.003
66. Tanguy JC, Patanè G (1996) L'Etna et le monde des volcans. Diderot, Paris
67. Tanguy JC, Bucur I, Thompson JFC (1985) Geomagnetic secular variation in Sicily and revised ages of historic lavas from Mount Etna. Nature 318:453-455
68. Tanguy JC, Le Goff M, Principe C, Arrighi S, Chillemi V, Paiotti A, La Delfa S, Patanè G (2003) Archeomagnetic dating of Mediterranean volcanics of the last 2100 years: Validity and limits. Earth Planet Sci Lett 211:111-124, DOI 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00186-9
69. Tanguy JC, Principe C, Arrighi S (2005) Comment on "Historical measurements of the Earth's magnetic field compared with remanence directions from lava flows in Italy over the last four centuries" by R Lanza, A Meloni and E Tema. Phys Earth Planet Int 152:116-120, DOI 10.1016/j.pepi.2005.04.004
70. Thellier E (1966) Le champ magnétique terrestre fossile. Nucleus 7:1-33
71. Thellier E (1971) Magnétisme interne. Géophysique, Encyclopédie de la Pléiade. Gallimard, Paris, pp 235-276
72. Thellier E (1981) Sur la direction du champ magnétique terrestre en France durant les deux derniers millénaires. Phys Earth Planet Int 24:89-132
73. Tornambeni A (1537) Lettera al signor Barone del Burgio delli X di Giugno 1537, Cod. Vat. Lat. 6168, f. 377-379. In: I Carini, Il Muratori (eds), vol 1-3, 1886:1-7
74. Turner GM, Thompson R (1982) Detransformation of the British geomagnetic secular variation record for Holocene times. Geophys J R Astronom Soc 70:789-792
75. Uchrin G (1990) Olympiodorus's eruption of Mount Etna: A possible date of AD 417. EOS Trans Am Geophys Union 71:329-334
76. Vessereau J (1961) L'Etna. Soc d'édition Les Belles Lettres, Paris