Processes and timescales of magma evolution prior to the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption (Campi Flegrei, Italy)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 217-228

  Arienzo, Ilenia ^a   Heumann, Arnd ^b,d   Wörner, Gerhard ^b   Civetta, Lucia ^a,c   Orsi, Giovanni ^a  

^a OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^b Abteilung Geochemie   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Campanian ignimbrite eruption; Mixing process; Residence time; U th isotopes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RATIOS; CALDERA-FORMING ERUPTION; CAMPANIAN IGNIMBRITE; CAMPI FLEGREI; GLASS MATRICES; ISOCHRONES; ISOTOPE RATIO; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; MAGMA BATCHES; MAGMA BODIES; MAGMA EVOLUTION; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; MIXING PROCESS; PB ISOTOPES; RESIDENCE TIME; SOUTHERN ITALY; TIME-SCALES; U-TH ISOTOPES; VOLCANIC EVENT; VOLCANIC SYSTEMS;

ISOTOPES; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; URANIUM; VOLCANOES;

STRONTIUM;

CAMPANIAN; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNIMBRITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MIXING; RESIDENCE TIME; THORIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM ISOTOPE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; CAMPI FLEGREI; ITALY; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA];

EID: 79956334954     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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