40Ar/39Ar dating of tuff vents in the Campi Flegrei caldera (southern Italy): Toward a new chronostratigraphic reconstruction of the Holocene volcanic activity

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1323-1336

  Fedele, L ^a   Insinga, D D ^b   Calvert, A T ^c   Morra, V ^a   Perrotta, A ^a   Scarpati, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar dating; Campi Flegrei caldera; Chronostratigraphy; Tuff vents

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CALDERA; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; TUFF; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

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

EID: 80955134000     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0478-8     Document Type: Article

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