Evidence for an unknown explosive eruption of Mt. Etna volcano (Italy) during the Late Glacial

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

“…1b) are the most probable sources of all investigated tephra. Indeed, previous investigations (Giaccio et al, 2017a(Giaccio et al, , 2019Monaco et al, 2021) showed that, to a great extent, the majority of the Fucino tephra documented so far were sourced from these volcanic systems along with products from the Aeolian Islands (Di Roberto et al, 2018) and Etna volcano (Giaccio et al, 2017a;Del Carlo et al, 2020). Furthermore, almost all these volcanic systems were active in the time interval 250-170 ka (e.g., Peccerillo, 2017).…”

The recent evolution of the salt marsh ‘Pantano Grande’ (NE Sicily, Italy): interplay between natural and human activity over the last 3700 years

“…Y‐1/Et‐1; Paterne et al, 1988) in both the eastern Mediterranean and central‐southern Italy (e.g. Del Carlo et al, 2020; Giaccio et al, 2017; Wulf et al, 2008). Coltelli et al (2000) identified in mid‐proximal settings five periods of activity or Units, from A to E, where E refers to the last 15 ka following the Biancavilla‐Montalto caldera‐forming eruption (which corresponds to Unit D).…”

Mediterranean tephrostratigraphy and peri-Tyrrhenian explosive activity revaluated in light of the 430-365 ka record from Fucino Basin (central Italy)

“…Indeed, the recurrent and continuous explosive activity of the peri-Tyrrhenian volcanism, fed by potassic to ultrapotassic magmas (e.g., Peccerillo, 2017), as well as the presence of numerous Quaternary tectonic basins hosting thick sedimentary successions, constitute a unique combination which has allowed the retrieval of extremely rich tephra repositories and, consequently, eruption event stratigraphies. An increasing number of studies on marine (Keller et al, 1978;Paterne et al, 2008;Bourne et al, 2010Bourne et al, , 2015Tamburrino et al, 2012;Insigna et al, 2014;Morabito et al, 2014;Matthews et al, 2015;Petrosino et al, 2015Petrosino et al, , 2016D'Antonio et al, 2016), lacustrine (Wulf et al, 2004(Wulf et al, , 2008Petrosino et al, 2014a;Giaccio et al, 2015a;Di Roberto et al, 2018; Among the lacustrine successions hosted in the Pliocene-Quaternary inter-mountain tectonic basins of the central-southern Apennines (Italy), Fucino's is the most continuous and temporally resolved, with ~900 m of seemingly uninterrupted sedimentary infill, documenting the sediment accumulation since the Lower Pleistocene up to historical times (Cavinato et al, 2002;Giaccio et al, 2015b) and a rich tephra record (Giaccio et al, 2017(Giaccio et al, , 2019Di Roberto et al, 2018;Mannella et al, 2019;Del Carlo et al, 2020). Three factors make the Fucino Basin unique for reconstructing the eruptive history of the Italian peri-Tyrrhenian potassic to ultrapotassic volcanic activity and improving the central Mediterranean Middle Pleistocene tephrostratigraphic framework: (i) its relatively short distance from the peri-Tyrrhenian volcanoes of central Italy (~70 to ~150 km, Fig.…”