AN EXCEPTIONALLY THICK MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE TEPHRA LAYER FROM EPIRUS, GREECE

Authors
PYLE DM VANANDEL TH PASCHOS P VANDENBOGAARD P
Citation
Dm. Pyle et al., AN EXCEPTIONALLY THICK MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE TEPHRA LAYER FROM EPIRUS, GREECE, Quaternary research, 49(3), 1998, pp. 280-286
Citations number
55
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Quaternary research → ACNP
ISSN journal
00335894
Volume
49
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
280 - 286
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-5894(1998)49:3<280:AETMPT>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
A newly recognized 2-m-thick trachytic volcanic ash deposit from north western Greece is dated at 374,000 +/- 7000 yr and correlated with the Middle Pleistocene volcanic activity of central Italy. The deposit re presents ash fallout from one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Eur ope of the past 400,000 yr and should provide an important stratigraph ic marker within the poorly dated Middle Pleistocene deposits of Italy and Greece. (C) 1998 University of Washington.