The Italian volcano, Vesuvius, erupted explosively in AD 79. Sanidine from pumice collected at Casti Amanti in Pompeii and Villa Poppea in Oplontis yielded a weighted- mean 40Ar/39Ar age of 1925 +/- 66 years in 2004 (1 sigma uncertainty) from incremental- heating experiments of eight aliquants of sanidine. This is the calendar age of the eruption. Our results together with the work of Renne et al. (1997) and Renne and Min (1998) demonstrate the validity of the 40Ar/39Ar method to reconstruct the recent eruptive history of young, active volcanoes.
40Ar/39Ar ages of the AD 79 eruption of Mt Vesuvius
TEDESCO, Dario
2006
Abstract
The Italian volcano, Vesuvius, erupted explosively in AD 79. Sanidine from pumice collected at Casti Amanti in Pompeii and Villa Poppea in Oplontis yielded a weighted- mean 40Ar/39Ar age of 1925 +/- 66 years in 2004 (1 sigma uncertainty) from incremental- heating experiments of eight aliquants of sanidine. This is the calendar age of the eruption. Our results together with the work of Renne et al. (1997) and Renne and Min (1998) demonstrate the validity of the 40Ar/39Ar method to reconstruct the recent eruptive history of young, active volcanoes.File in questo prodotto:
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