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JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH
Volume 177, Issue 1, Pages 145-154Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.08.017
Keywords
tephrostratigraphy; tephrochronology; Y-3; Central Mediterranean; Campanian volcanoes
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- INGV
- Civil Protection Department of the Italian Government
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The paper reviews the existing data on the Y-3 tephra layer, first recognised in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean basin). The collection and collation of old and new data on distal tephra occurrences in terrestrial, marine and lacustrine successions indicate that the Y-3 layer is dispersed over a wide area of the central Mediterranean basin. The peculiar homogeneous chemical composition of this layer makes its recognition rather straightforward and permits it being distinguished from other stratigraphically adjacent tephras. The best age estimate for the Y-3 layer of ca 30-31 cal ka BP, its peculiar stratigraphic position close to the Marine Isotope Stage 3/2 transition or Heinrich Event 3 onset, as well as its wide dispersion makes this layer an important marker to link and date late Pleistocene terrestrial and marine archives of the central Mediterranean basin. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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