Overview
- Updated overview of relations between geodynamics and magmatism
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 wide compositional variation makes Italian magmatism one of the most complex petrological issues, the understanding of which is a challenge for modern petrology and geochemistry. This book summarises the petrological, geochemical and volcanological characteristics of Italian Plio-Quaternary volcanism, and discusses petrogenetic hypotheses and possible geodynamics settings. The book is written for petrologists and geochemists, but fundamental geochemical information is well presented and the use of excessive jargon is avoided, making the book readable to a wide audience of Earth scientists.
Reviews
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"There is a rich heritage of volcanologic and petrologic research on Italian volcanoes that covers the last century and a half. This book by Angelo Peccerillo is a truly comprehensive compilation of this research. … This well-crafted, comprehensive synthesis of all that is known about volcanism in Italy allows you to bypass the library, and this should be on the desk of anyone interested in the topic." (Grant Heiken, Journal of Geology, Vol. 115, 2007)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plio-Quaternary Volcanism in Italy
Book Subtitle: Petrology, Geochemistry, Geodynamics
Authors: Angelo Peccerillo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29092-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-29092-6Published: 12 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 365
Topics: Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Geophysics/Geodesy, Mineralogy