This volume presents a comprehensive review of palaeoenvironmental evidence and its
incorporation with landscape archaeology from across the Mediterranean. A fundamental …

The explosive eruption at Santorini in the Aegean Sea during the second millennium BCE
was the largest Holocene volcanic upheaval in the Eastern Mediterranean region. The …

We use the tephrostratigraphic framework along the Aegean Volcanic Arc established in
Part 1 of this contribution to determine hemipelagic sedimentation rates, calculate new …

The Hellenic arc is a terrane of extensive Quaternary volcanism. One of the main centers of
explosive eruptions is located on Thera (Santorini), and the eruption of the Thera volcano in …

Santorini, Greece is a major explosive volcano. The Santorini volcanic complex is composed
of two active volcanoes—Nea Kameni and Mt. Columbo. Holocene eruptions have …

The 161ka explosive eruption of the Kos Plateau Tuff (KPT) ejected a minimum of 60km3 of
rhyolitic magma, a minor amount of andesitic magma and incorporated more than 3km3 of …

The volcanic arc of the Hellenic subduction zone with its four volcanic centers is of major
relevance when evaluating the seismovolcanic hazard for the Aegean region. We present …

The volcanic rocks of the South Aegean arc (SAAVA) form a chain from the Gulf of Saronikos
(Susaki, Egina, Poros, Methana) at West, to an area close to the Anatolian coast at East …

The detailed analysis of the craters of hydrothermal eruptions and related products present
on Nisyros Island demonstrates the ephemerality of these morphological forms. In other …

The chemical and isotopic composition of fumarolic gases emitted from Nisyros Volcano,
Greece, and of a single gas sample from Vesuvio, Italy, was investigated in order to …