It is generally accepted that the vent of the 3.6 ka Minoan eruption was situated in the water-filled Santorini caldera prior to the Minoan eruption. One should therefore expect to find huge quantities of pumice and a...
Acknowledgements The authors thank the anonymous reviewers and the editor for their helpful reviews and constructive suggestions which greatly improved the original manuscript. We also thank Drs. Z Guo, H He, X Chen and L Zhang for their help during the preparation of this manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41272369, 40802038, and 41320104006).
Large explosive volcanic eruptions generate extensive regional tephra deposits that provide favorable conditions for identifying the source of volcanoes, comparing the sedimentary strata of a region and determining th...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China; the State Committee for Antarctic Research of China
A volcanic ash layer was observed in the 3 ice cores on the Nelson Ice Cap,Antarctica.A comparison of major elemental composition of glass shards from the 3 tephra layers with average whole-rock compositions of 1967-1...