Deep water gravity core from the Marsili Basin (Tyrrhenian Sea) records Pleistocenic-Holocenic explosive events and instability of the Aeolian Archipelago, (Italy)

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-144

  Di Roberto, A ^a,b   Rosi, M ^b   Bertagnini, A ^b   Marani, M P ^c   Gamberi, F ^c   Del Principe, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

flank collapse; gravity core; Marsili Basin; tephrochronology; turbidity current

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GLASS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

FLANK COLLAPSE; GRAVITY CORE; MARSILI BASIN; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

DEEP WATER; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC GLASS; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MARSILI BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINA [SICILY]; SALINA; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 53949088866     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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