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- Title
Ar/Ar dating of tuff vents in the Campi Flegrei caldera (southern Italy): toward a new chronostratigraphic reconstruction of the Holocene volcanic activity.
- Authors
Fedele, L.; Insinga, D.; Calvert, A.; Morra, V.; Perrotta, A.; Scarpati, C.
- Abstract
The Campi Flegrei hosts numerous monogenetic vents inferred to be younger than the 15 ka Neapolitan Yellow Tuff. Sanidine crystals from the three young Campi Flegrei vents of Fondi di Baia, Bacoli and Nisida were dated using Ar/Ar geochronology. These vents, together with several other young edifices, occur roughly along the inner border of the Campi Flegrei caldera, suggesting that the volcanic conduits are controlled by caldera-bounding faults. Plateau ages of ∼9.6 ka (Fondi di Baia), ∼8.6 ka (Bacoli) and ∼3.9 ka (Nisida) indicate eruptive activity during intervals previously interpreted as quiescent. A critical revision, involving calendar age correction of literature C data and available Ar/Ar age data, is presented. A new reference chronostratigraphic framework for Holocene Phlegrean activity, which significantly differs from the previously adopted ones, is proposed. This has important implications for understanding the Campi Flegrei eruptive history and, ultimately, for the evaluation of related volcanic risk and hazard, for which the inferred history of its recent activity is generally taken into account.
- Subjects
PHLEGRAEAN Plain (Italy); ITALY; ARGON; CALDERAS; VOLCANIC activity prediction; HOLOCENE Epoch; VOLCANIC ash, tuff, etc.
- Publication
Bulletin of Volcanology, 2011, Vol 73, Issue 9, p1323
- ISSN
0258-8900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00445-011-0478-8