Late Pliocene volcaniclastic products from Southern Apennines: Distal witness of early explosive volcanism in the central Tyrrhenian Sea

Geological Magazine

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 521-536

  Prosser, Giacomo ^a   Bentivenga, Mario ^a   Laurenzi, Marinella A ^b   Caggianelli, Alfredo ^c   Dellino, Pierfrancesco ^c   Doronzo, Domenico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calc alkaline magmatism; Late Pliocene deposits; Tyrrhenian sea; Volcaniclastic deposits

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; TEXTURES;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; LATE PLIOCENE; MAGMATISMS; TYRRHENIAN SEA; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

VOLCANOES;

ACCUMULATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; DENSITY CURRENT; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FALLOUT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 46649087956     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756808004512     Document Type: Article

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