The marine isotope stage 1–5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean …

S Wulf, MJ Hardiman, RA Staff, A Koutsodendris… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The iconic climate archive of Tenaghi Philippon (TP), NE Greece, allows the study of short-
term palaeoclimatic and environmental change throughout the past 1.3 Ma. To provide high …

Correlating tephras and cryptotephras using glass compositional analyses and numerical and statistical methods: review and evaluation

DJ Lowe, NJG Pearce, MA Jorgensen… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
We define tephras and cryptotephras and their components (mainly ash-sized particles of
glass±crystals in distal deposits) and summarize the basis of tephrochronology as a …

First integrated tephrochronological record for the last∼ 190 kyr from the Fucino Quaternary lacustrine succession, central Italy

B Giaccio, EM Niespolo, A Pereira, S Nomade… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present the first integrated tephrochronological study (major and trace elemental glass
composition, Sr and Nd isotope analyses, and 40 Ar/39 Ar dating) for the last one tenth (∼ …

Tephrostratigraphy of Grotta del Cavallo, Southern Italy: insights on the chronology of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Mediterranean

G Zanchetta, B Giaccio, M Bini, L Sarti - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Grotta del Cavallo contains one of the most important stratification of
Mousterian, Uluzzian and Final Epigravettian tecnocomplexes; its chronology is of …

Linking the Mediterranean MIS 5 tephra markers to Campi Flegrei (southern Italy) 109–92 ka explosive activity and refining the chronology of MIS 5c-d millennial-scale …

L Monaco, DM Palladino, PG Albert, I Arienzo… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Explosive activity preceding the~ 40 ka Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in the
Neapolitan volcanic area, Southern Italy, has long been speculated based on the …

First tephrostratigraphic results of the DEEP site record from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia and Albania)

N Leicher, G Zanchetta, R Sulpizio, B Giaccio… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
A tephrostratigraphic record covering the Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 1–15 was established
for the DEEP site record of Lake Ohrid (Macedonia and Albania). Major element analyses …

An end to the Last Interglacial highstand before 120 ka: Relative sea-level evidence from Infreschi Cave (Southern Italy)

M Bini, G Zanchetta, RN Drysdale, B Giaccio… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The timing, duration and evolution of sea level during the Marine Isotope Stage 5e (MIS 5e)
highstand is a subject of intense debate. A major problem in resolving this debate is the …

Tephra without borders: Far-reaching clues into past explosive eruptions

V Ponomareva, M Portnyagin, SM Davies - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
This review is intended to highlight recent exciting advances in the study of distal (> 100 km
from the source) tephra and cryptotephra deposits and their potential application for …

The Fucino 250–170 ka tephra record: new insights on peri-Tyrrhenian explosive volcanism, central mediterranean tephrochronology, and timing of the MIS 8-6 …

L Monaco, N Leicher, DM Palladino, I Arienzo… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fucino Basin, central Italy, with its long and continuous history of Quaternary
sediment accumulation, is one of the richest Mediterranean Middle Pleistocene tephra …

The long and intertwined record of humans and the Campi Flegrei volcano (Italy)

A Costa, MA Di Vito, GP Ricciardi, VC Smith… - Bulletin of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Campi Flegrei volcano (or Phlegraean Fields), Campania, Italy, generated the
largest eruption in Europe in at least 200 ka. Here we summarise the volcanic and human …