High-resolution 40Ar/39Ar chronostratigraphy of the post-caldera (<20ka) volcanic activity at Pantelleria, Sicily Strait

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 280-290

  Scaillet, Stéphane ^a   Rotolo, Silvio G ^b,c   La Felice, Sonia ^b   Vita Scaillet, Grazia ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

440Ar 39Ar; Anorthoclase; Excess 40Ar; Pantelleria; Xenocrysts

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOCLASE; CALDERA-FORMING ERUPTION; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ERUPTION FREQUENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION; MELT PRODUCTION; PANTELLERIA; PANTELLERITE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SHORT-TERM BEHAVIOR; SHORT-TERM VARIATIONS; SYSTEM-BASED; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRAPDOOR FAULTING; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; XENOCRYSTS;

FLOCCULATION; FLOORS; SEA LEVEL;

VOLCANOES;

ANORTHOSITE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CALDERA; PALEOSOL; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

ITALY; PANTELLERIA; SICILY; TRAPANI;

EID: 80052784816     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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