Correlation of a tephra layer in Western Greece with a Late Pleistocene eruption in the Campanian Province of Italy

Auteurs :
ST. SEYMOUR, K.
CHRISTANIS, K.

Description :
The Kalodiki fen is a 2-km2 mire in a small basin within a tectonic depression in Epirus, western Greece. The basin has accumulated as much as 9 m of peat and a tephra layer appears in cores at depths ranging from 2.9 to 5.7 m. The likely age of the tephra, its index of refraction, and its mineralogical and chemical characteristics display strong similarities to tephra from the Campanian province of Italy. Mineralogically similar tephra layers have also been reported from a peat deposit at Philippi, in northeastern Greece.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Quaternary research, issn : 0033-5894, 1995, vol. 43, n°. 1, p. 46-54, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 27 ref.

Date :
1995

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, San Diego, CA, Elsevier