Plio-Quaternary Volcanism in Italy Petrology, Geochemistry, Geodynamics /

• Main Author: Peccerillo, Angelo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geochemistry.; Geology.; Mineralogy.; Geophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

Central-Southern Italy and the Tyrrhenian Sea are the sites of extensive Plio-Quaternary magmatic activity. The rock compositions include crustal anatectic granites and rhyolites, tholeiitic, calc-alkaline, shoshonitic volcanics, and potassic to ultrapotassic and Na-alkaline volcanics. This very wid...

Table of Contents:

• Plio-Quaternary Magmatism in Italy: An Introductory Overview
• The Tuscany Province
• The Intra-Apennine Province
• The Roman Province
• The Ernici-Roccamonfina Province
• The Campania Province, Pontine Islands, and Mount Vulture
• The Aeolian arc
• The Sicily Province
• Sardinia and the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea
• Petrogenesis and Geodynamics in Italy.