Gaeta Bay Volcanic Field

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Italy, European Volcanic Regions

Kde

Italy, European Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Volcanic field

Poloha

40,978°, 13,663°

The Gaeta Bay Volcanic Field consists of a group of eight buried submarine volcanoes of early to mid-Pleistocene age (Torrente and Milia, 2013). This volcanism is generally characterized by thick lava flows and volcaniclastic deposits. The entire volcanic field is up to 1,500 m thick. Volcanic activity in the Gaeta Bay and surrounding regions was largely fault bounded, where extension and subsidence controlled the emplacement and displacement of most of the volcanic centers (Torrente and Milia, 2013). These volcanic centers developed between 400,000 and 100,000 years ago. The extension and volcanism responsible for the volcanic field migrated eastward with time, towards the Campi Flegrei (Torrente and Milia, 2013).

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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