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Geological Society, London, Memoirs | 2013

Chapter 14 Stromboli volcano, Aeolian Islands (Italy): present eruptive activity and hazards

Mauro Rosi; Marco Pistolesi; Antonella Bertagnini; P. Landi; M. Pompilio; A. Di Roberto

Abstract Stromboli, the northernmost island of the Aeolian archipelago, is known for its persistent volcanic activity over the last several centuries and for its cone which, on clear days, is surmounted by a gas plume rising from its summit. The island hosts two settled areas: the village of Stromboli (c. 500 inhabitants) to the NE and that of Ginostra (c. 40 inhabitants) to the SW, both situated along the coast. In summer the number of residents grows considerably, reaching c. 5000 people. This paper provides a description of the present activity and reassesses volcanic hazards on the basis of data from a new monitoring system and from studies on the 2002–2003 and 2007 crises. The normal activity, that of mild Strombolian explosions, is occasionally interrupted by violent eruptions of variable scale (paroxysmal events) and lava flows. Volcanic hazards directly generated by eruptive activity consist of ballistic and tephra fallout, pyroclastic flows, lava flows, wildfires and minor lahars, presenting serious problems to the settled areas only occasionally. In addition to hazards directly related to eruptive phenomena, the Sciara del Fuoco depression has been the site of landslides at various scales, sometimes accompanied by the formation of tsunamis.


Archive | 2010

Distal Turbidites and Tsunamigenic Landslides of Stromboli Volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy)

A. Di Roberto; Mauro Rosi; Antonella Bertagnini; Michael Marani; Fabiano Gamberi

On 30 December 2002, a 25-30 × 106 m3 landslide on the NW flank of Stromboli volcano produced a tsunami that caused relevant damage to the Stromboli village and to the neighboring islands of the Aeolian archipelago. The NW flank of Stromboli has been the site of several, cubic kilometer-scale, landslides during the past 13 ka. In this paper we present sedimentological and compositional data of deep-sea cores recovered from a site located about 24 km north of the island. Our preliminary results indicate that: (i) turbidity currents were effectively generated by the large-scale failures and (ii) volcanogenic turbidity current deposits retain clues of the landslide source and slope failure dynamics. By analogy with Hawaii and the Canary islands we confirm that deep-sea sediments can be effectively used to assess the age and scale of past landslide events giving an important contribution to the tsunami hazard assessment of this region.


Bulletin of Volcanology | 2015

Xenopumice erupted on 15 October 2011 offshore of El Hierro (Canary Islands): a subvolcanic snapshot of magmatic, hydrothermal and pyrometamorphic processes

S. Del Moro; A. Di Roberto; S. Meletlidis; M. Pompilio; Antonella Bertagnini; S. Agostini; Filippo Ridolfi; Alberto Renzulli

On 15 October 2011, a submarine eruption offshore of El Hierro Island gave rise to floating volcanic products, known as xenopumices, i.e., pumiceous xenoliths partly mingled and coated with the juvenile basanitic magma. Over the last few years, no consensus in the scientific community in explaining the origin of these products has been reached. In order to better understand the formation of xenopumice, we present a textural, mineralogical, and geochemical study of the possible magmatic, hydrothermal, and pyrometamorphic processes, which usually operate in the plumbing systems of active volcanoes. We carried out a comprehensive SEM investigation and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope analyses on some samples representative of three different xenopumice facies. All the data were compared with previous studies, new data for El Hierro extrusives and a literature dataset of Canary Islands igneous and sedimentary rocks. In the investigated xenopumices, we emphasize the presence of restitic magmatic phases as well as crystallization of minerals (mainly olivine + pyroxene + magnetite aggregates) as pseudomorphs after pre-existing mafic phenocrysts, providing evidence of pyrometamorphism induced by the high-T juvenile basanitic magma. In addition, we identify veins consisting of zircon + REE-oxides + mullite associated with Si-rich glass and hydrothermal quartz, which indicate the fundamental role played by hydrothermal fluid circulation in the xenopumice protolith. The petrological data agree with a pre-syneruptive formation of the xenopumice, when El Hierro basanite magma intruded hydrothermally altered trachyandesite to trachyte rocks and triggered local partial melting. Therefore, the El Hierro xenopumice represents a snapshot of the transient processes at the magma-wall rock interface, which normally occurs in the feeding system of active volcanoes.


Bulletin of Volcanology | 2015

Late Pleistocene-Holocene volcanic activity in northern Victoria Land recorded in Ross Sea (Antarctica) marine sediments

P. Del Carlo; A. Di Roberto; G. Di Vincenzo; Antonella Bertagnini; P. Landi; M. Pompilio; Ester Colizza; Guido Giordano

Eight pyroclastic fall deposits have been identified in cores of Late Pleistocene-Holocene marine sediments from the Ross Sea (Antarctica), and their components, granulometry and clast morphologies were analysed. Sedimentological, petrographic and geochemical analysis of clasts, with 40Ar-39Ar dating of alkali feldspar grains, indicate that during this period at least five explosive eruptions of mid to high intensity (plinian to subplinian) occurred, and that three of these eruptions took place from Mount Melbourne volcanic complex, between 137.1 ± 3.4 and 12 ka. Geochemical comparison of the studied tephra with micro- and crypto-tephra recovered from deep Antarctic ice cores and from nearby englacial tephra at Frontier Mountain indicates that eruptive activity in the Melbourne Volcanic Province of northern Victoria Land was intense during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene, but only a general area of provenance for the majority of the identified tephra can be identified.


Geophysical Research Letters | 2012

Xenopumices from the 2011–2012 submarine eruption of El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain): Constraints on the plumbing system and magma ascent

S. Meletlidis; A. Di Roberto; M. Pompilio; Antonella Bertagnini; I. Iribarren; A. Felpeto; P. A. Torres; C. D'Oriano


Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 2012

Marine-continental tephra correlations: Volcanic glass geochemistry from the Marsili Basin and the Aeolian Islands, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy

Paul G. Albert; Emma L. Tomlinson; Victoria C. Smith; A. Di Roberto; A. Todman; Mauro Rosi; Michael Marani; Wolfgang Müller; Martin Menzies


Annals of Geophysics | 2006

Sedimentologic and volcanologic investigation of the deep tyrrhenian sea: preliminary result of cruise VST02

Fabiano Gamberi; Michael Marani; V. Landuzzi; A. Magagnoli; D. Penitenti; Mauro Rosi; A. Bertagnini; A. Di Roberto


Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 2008

Deep water gravity core from the Marsili Basin (Tyrrhenian Sea) records Pleistocenic–Holocenic explosive events and instability of the Aeolian Archipelago, (Italy)

A. Di Roberto; Mauro Rosi; Antonella Bertagnini; Michael Marani; Fabiano Gamberi; A. Del Principe


Geophysical Research Letters | 2008

Newly discovered submarine flank eruption at Stromboli volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy)

A. Di Roberto; Antonella Bertagnini; M. Pompilio; Fabiano Gamberi; Michael Marani; A. M. Rosi


Bulletin of Volcanology | 2014

Pyroclastic density currents at Stromboli volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy): a case study of the 1930 eruption

A. Di Roberto; Antonella Bertagnini; M. Pompilio; Marina Bisson

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S. Meletlidis

Instituto Geográfico Nacional

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A. Felpeto

Instituto Geográfico Nacional

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I. Iribarren

Instituto Geográfico Nacional

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P. A. Torres

Instituto Geográfico Nacional

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