Dra. Claudia Principe (Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Laboratorio di Archeomagnetismo IGG-CNR, Itàlia) SEMINARIS DE LA FACULTAT DE GEOLOGIA I L'INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE LA TERRA 'JAUME ALMERA'
Teide (Tenerife, Spain) and Vesuvius (Naples, Italy) are amongst the mostly active volcanic systems in Europe and future eruptions
may occur from many different vent sites on both systems. In spite of this fact, a surprising lack of information on the time distribution and physical characterization of lava flows emitted from Vesuvius, at least during medieval times, has been highlighted in the recent literature, stimulating new cartographic and chronostratigrafic studies.

The seminar focus on the geology of the SW sector of Vesuvius, were a
number of volcanic (lava flows, vents) and volcano-tectonic feature
(faults, fractures, vents alignments) has been mapped and related to
medieval and/or recent, historically well described, eruptions.

The resulting picture revealed important implication in future eruptive
scenarios at Vesuvius adding the risk associated to the possible
emplacement of low-viscosity fast-moving lava flows to the more
"classical" explosive scenarios. Various contact points exist between
this new risk scenario at Vesuvius and basic and intermediate activity
Teide volcano expressed in recent times.


Dia:09/05/2012
Hora:12:00
Lloc: Sala d'actes de l'Institut Jaume Almera