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Revised Chronology of the Sulmona Lacustrine Succession, Central Italy
Author(s)
Language
English
Obiettivo Specifico
2.2. Laboratorio di paleomagnetismo
Status
Published
JCR Journal
JCR Journal
Peer review journal
Yes
Title of the book
Issue/vol(year)
6 / 28 (2013)
ISSN
0267-8179
Electronic ISSN
1099-1417
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages (printed)
545–551
Issued date
August 2013
Abstract
We present new stratigraphic, palaeomagnetic, 87Sr/86Sr and 40Ar/39Ar data from a lacustrine succession of the Sulmona basin, central Italy, which, according to an early study, included six unconformitybounded
lacustrine units (from SUL6, oldest, to SUL1, youngest) spanning the interval >600 to 2 ka. The results of the present study, on the one hand confirm some of the previous conclusions, but by contrast reveal that units SUL2 and SUL1, previously attributed to the Holocene, are actually equivalent to the older SUL6 and SUL5 units – here dated to 814–>530 ka and 530–<457 ka, respectively – and that the U-series dates previously published for both former SUL2 and SUL1 units yielded abnormally young ages. In light of the present results, a reassessment
of the chronology of the Sulmona basin succession and a revision of the tephrostratigraphy of the SUL2/SUL6 and
SUL1/SUL5 units is in order.
lacustrine units (from SUL6, oldest, to SUL1, youngest) spanning the interval >600 to 2 ka. The results of the present study, on the one hand confirm some of the previous conclusions, but by contrast reveal that units SUL2 and SUL1, previously attributed to the Holocene, are actually equivalent to the older SUL6 and SUL5 units – here dated to 814–>530 ka and 530–<457 ka, respectively – and that the U-series dates previously published for both former SUL2 and SUL1 units yielded abnormally young ages. In light of the present results, a reassessment
of the chronology of the Sulmona basin succession and a revision of the tephrostratigraphy of the SUL2/SUL6 and
SUL1/SUL5 units is in order.
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isotopic (Nd–Pb–Sr–O) variations bearing on the genesis of volcanic
rocks from Vesuvius, Italy. Journal of Volcanology and
Geothermal Research 82: 53–78.
Barbieri M, Peccerillo A, Poli G, et al. 1988. Major, trace element
and Sr isotopic composition of lavas from Vico volcano (Central
Italy) and their evolution in an open system. Contributions to
Mineralogy and Petrology 99: 485–497.
Boari E, Avanzinelli R, Melluso L, et al. 2009. Isotope geochemistry
(Sr–Nd–Pb) and petrogenesis of leucite-bearing volcanic rocks from
‘Colli Albani’ volcano, Roman Magmatic Province, Central Italy:
inferences on volcano evolution and magma genesis. Bulletin of
Volcanology 71: 977–1005.
Capraro L, Massari F, Rio D, et al. 2011. Chronology of the Lower-
Middle Pleistocene succession of the south-western part of the
Crotone Basin (Calabria, Southern Italy). Quaternary Science
Reviews 30: 1185–1200.
Ciaranfi N, Lirer F, Lirer L, et al. 2010. Integrated stratigraphy and
astronomical tuning of lower-middle Pleistocene Montalbano
Jonico section (southern Italy). Quaternary International 219: 109–
120.
Conticelli S, D’Antonio M, Pinarelli L, et al. 2002. Source contamination
and mantle heterogeneity in the genesis of Italian potassic and
ultrapotassic volcanic rocks: Sr-Nd–Pb isotope data from Roman
Province and Southern Tuscany. Mineralogy and Petrology 74:
189–222.
Conticelli S, Francalanci L, Manetti P, et al. 1997. Petrology and
geochemistry of the ultrapotassic rocks from the Sabatini volcanic
district, central Italy: the role of evolutionary processes in the
genesis of variably enriched alkaline magmas. Journal of Volcanology
and Geothermal Research 75: 107–136.
Conticelli S, Francalanci L, Manetti P, et al. 1987. Evolution of Latera
volcano, Vulsinian district (Central Italy): stratigraphical and
petrological data. Periodico di Mineralogia 56: 175–199.
Conticelli S, Marchionni S, Rosa D, et al. 2009. Shoshonite and subalkaline
magmas from an ultrapotassic volcano: Sr–Nd–Pb isotope
data on the Roccamonfina volcanic rocks, Roman Magmatic
Province, Southern Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
157: 41–63.
D’Agostino N, Jackson JA, Dramis F, et al. 2001. Interactions between
mantle upwelling, drainage evolution and active normal faulting: an example from the central Apennines (Italy). Geophysical Journal International 147: 475–497. Di Battistini G, Montanini A, Vernia L, et al. 1998. Petrology and
geochemistry of ultrapotassic rocks from the Montefiascone Volcanic
Complex (Central Italy): magmatic evolution and petrogenesis.
Lithos 43: 169–195.
Di Renzo V, Di Vito MA, Arienzo I, et al. 2007. Magmatic history of
Somma-Vesuvius on the basis of new geochemical and isotopic
data from a deep borehole (Camaldoli della Torre). Journal of
Petrology 48: 753–784.
Freda C, Gaeta M, Giaccio B, et al. 2011. CO2-driven large mafic
explosive eruptions: the Pozzolane Rosse case study from the Colli
Albani volcanic district (Italy). Bulletin of Volcanology 73: 241–256.
Gaeta M, Freda C, Christensen JN, et al. 2006. Time-dependent
geochemistry of clinopyroxene from the Alba Hills (Central Italy):
clues to source and evolution of ultrapotassic magmas. Lithos 86:
330–346.
Gasperini D, Blichert-Toft J, Bosch D, et al. 2002. Upwelling of deep
mantle material through a plate window: evidence from the
geochemistry of Italian basaltic volcanics. Journal of Geophysical
Research 107(12): B12: 2367.
Giaccio B, Arienzo I, Sottili G, et al. 2013. Isotopic (Sr–Nd) and
major element fingerprinting of distal tephras: an application to the
Middle-Late Pleistocene markers from the Colli Albani volcano,
central Italy. Quaternary Science Reviews 67: 190–206.
Giaccio B, Messina P, Sposato A, et al. 2009. Tephra layers from
Holocene lake sediments of the Sulmona basin, central Italy:
implications for volcanic activity in peninsular Italy and tephrostratigraphy
in the central Mediterranean area. Quaternary Science
Reviews 28: 2710–2733.
Giaccio B, Nomade S, Wulf S, et al. 2012. The late MIS 5
Mediterranean tephra markers: a reappraisal from peninsular Italy
terrestrial records. Quaternary Science Reviews 56: 31–45.
Gori S, Giaccio B, Galadini F, et al. 2011. Active normal faulting
along the Mt. Morrone south-western slopes (central Apennines,
Italy). International Journal of Earth Sciences 100: 157–171.
Hu S, Stephenson A, Appel E. 2002. A study of gyroremanent
magnetisation (GRM) and rotational remanent magnetisation (RRM)
carried by greigite from lake sediments. Geophysical Journal
International 151: 469–474.
Kirschvink J. 1980. The least-squares line and plane and the analysis
of palaeomagnetic data. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical
Society 62: 699–718.
Koppers AAP. 2002. ArAr CALC software for 40Ar/39Ar age
calculations. Computers and Geosciences 28: 605–619.
Ku TL. 1979. Th230–U234 dating of pedogenic carbonates in gravelly
desert soils of Videl Valley Southeastern California. Geological
Society of America Bulletin 11: 1063–1073.
Kuiper KF, Deino A, Hilgen FJ, et al. 2008. Synchronizing rock clocks
of Earth history. Science 320: 500–504.
Lourens LJ, Hilgen FJ, Laskar J, et al. 2004. The Neogene period. In A
Geologic Time Scale 2004, Gradstein FM, Ogg J et al. (eds.)
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK; 409–440.
Ludwig KR. 2001. Isoplot 3.0dA Geochronological Toolkit for Microsoft
Excel: Special Publication No. 4. Berkeley Geochronology Center: Berkeley, CA. Massari F, Rio D, Sgavetti M, et al. 2002. Interplay between tectonics
and glacio-eustasy: Pleistocene succession of the Crotone Basin,
Calabria (southern Italy). Geological Society of America Bulletin
114: 1183–1209.
Nomade S, Gauthier A, Guillou H, et al. 2010. 40Ar/39Ar temporal
framework for the Alleret maar lacustrine sequence (French Massif-
Central): volcanological and paleoclimatic implications. Quaternary
Geochronology 5: 20–27.
Perini G, Francalanci L, Davidson JP, et al. 2004. Evolution and
genesis of magmas from Vico volcano, central Italy: multiple
differentiation pathways and variable parental magmas. Journal of
Petrology 45: 139–182.
Piochi M, Ayuso RA, De Vivo B, et al. 2006. Crustal contamination
and crystal entrapment during evolution at Mt. Somma-Vesuvius
volcano, Italy: geochemical and Sr isotopic evidence. Lithos 86:
303–329.
Renne PR, Deino AL, Hames WE, et al. 2009. Data reporting norms
for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Quaternary Geochronology 4: 346–
352.
Renne PR, Mundil R, Balco G, et al. 2011. Response to the comment
by W.H. Schwarz et al. on ‘Joint determination of 40K decay
constants and 40Ar /40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard,
and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology’ by P.R.
Renne et al. (2010). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75: 5097–
5100.
Roberts AP, Chang L, Rowan CJ, et al. 2011. Magnetic properties of
sedimentary greigite (Fe3S4): an update. Reviews of Geophysics 49:
RG1002.
Rogers NW, Hawkesworth CJ, Parker RJ, et al. 1985. The geochemistry
of potassic lavas from Vulsini, central Italy, and implications for
mantle enrichment processes beneath the Roman region. Contributions
to Mineralogy and Petrology 90: 244–257.
Sagnotti L. 2013. Demagnetization Analysis in Excel (DAIE) an
open source workbook in Excel for viewing and analyzing
demagnetization data from paleomagnetic discrete samples and
u-channels. Annals of Geophysics 56: D0114. doi: 10.4401/ag-6282
Sagnotti L, Winkler A. 1999. Rock magnetism and palaeomagnetism
of greigite-bearing mudstones in the Italian peninsula. Earth and
Planetary Sciences Letters 165: 67–80.
Santacroce R, Cioni R, Marianelli P, et al. 2008. Age and whole rockglass
compositions of proximal pyroclastics from the major explosive
eruptions of Somma-Vesuvius: a review as a tool for distal
tephrostratigraphy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
177: 1–18.
Scardia G, Sagnotti L, Giaccio B, et al. 2012. The Brunhes–Matuyama
transition in central Italy lacustrine deposits. Geophysical Research
Abstracts 14: EGU2012–3583.
Somma R, Ayuso RA, De Vivo B, et al. 2001. Major, trace element
and isotope geochemistry (Sr–Nd–Pb) of interplinian magmas from
Mt. Somma Vesuvius (Southern Italy). Mineralogy and Petrology
73: 121–143.
Zijderveld J. 1967. AC demagnetization of rocks: analysis of results.
In Palaeomagnetism, vol. 3, Collinson DW, Creer KM, Runcorn SK
(eds). Elsevier: Amsterdam; 254–268.
isotopic (Nd–Pb–Sr–O) variations bearing on the genesis of volcanic
rocks from Vesuvius, Italy. Journal of Volcanology and
Geothermal Research 82: 53–78.
Barbieri M, Peccerillo A, Poli G, et al. 1988. Major, trace element
and Sr isotopic composition of lavas from Vico volcano (Central
Italy) and their evolution in an open system. Contributions to
Mineralogy and Petrology 99: 485–497.
Boari E, Avanzinelli R, Melluso L, et al. 2009. Isotope geochemistry
(Sr–Nd–Pb) and petrogenesis of leucite-bearing volcanic rocks from
‘Colli Albani’ volcano, Roman Magmatic Province, Central Italy:
inferences on volcano evolution and magma genesis. Bulletin of
Volcanology 71: 977–1005.
Capraro L, Massari F, Rio D, et al. 2011. Chronology of the Lower-
Middle Pleistocene succession of the south-western part of the
Crotone Basin (Calabria, Southern Italy). Quaternary Science
Reviews 30: 1185–1200.
Ciaranfi N, Lirer F, Lirer L, et al. 2010. Integrated stratigraphy and
astronomical tuning of lower-middle Pleistocene Montalbano
Jonico section (southern Italy). Quaternary International 219: 109–
120.
Conticelli S, D’Antonio M, Pinarelli L, et al. 2002. Source contamination
and mantle heterogeneity in the genesis of Italian potassic and
ultrapotassic volcanic rocks: Sr-Nd–Pb isotope data from Roman
Province and Southern Tuscany. Mineralogy and Petrology 74:
189–222.
Conticelli S, Francalanci L, Manetti P, et al. 1997. Petrology and
geochemistry of the ultrapotassic rocks from the Sabatini volcanic
district, central Italy: the role of evolutionary processes in the
genesis of variably enriched alkaline magmas. Journal of Volcanology
and Geothermal Research 75: 107–136.
Conticelli S, Francalanci L, Manetti P, et al. 1987. Evolution of Latera
volcano, Vulsinian district (Central Italy): stratigraphical and
petrological data. Periodico di Mineralogia 56: 175–199.
Conticelli S, Marchionni S, Rosa D, et al. 2009. Shoshonite and subalkaline
magmas from an ultrapotassic volcano: Sr–Nd–Pb isotope
data on the Roccamonfina volcanic rocks, Roman Magmatic
Province, Southern Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
157: 41–63.
D’Agostino N, Jackson JA, Dramis F, et al. 2001. Interactions between
mantle upwelling, drainage evolution and active normal faulting: an example from the central Apennines (Italy). Geophysical Journal International 147: 475–497. Di Battistini G, Montanini A, Vernia L, et al. 1998. Petrology and
geochemistry of ultrapotassic rocks from the Montefiascone Volcanic
Complex (Central Italy): magmatic evolution and petrogenesis.
Lithos 43: 169–195.
Di Renzo V, Di Vito MA, Arienzo I, et al. 2007. Magmatic history of
Somma-Vesuvius on the basis of new geochemical and isotopic
data from a deep borehole (Camaldoli della Torre). Journal of
Petrology 48: 753–784.
Freda C, Gaeta M, Giaccio B, et al. 2011. CO2-driven large mafic
explosive eruptions: the Pozzolane Rosse case study from the Colli
Albani volcanic district (Italy). Bulletin of Volcanology 73: 241–256.
Gaeta M, Freda C, Christensen JN, et al. 2006. Time-dependent
geochemistry of clinopyroxene from the Alba Hills (Central Italy):
clues to source and evolution of ultrapotassic magmas. Lithos 86:
330–346.
Gasperini D, Blichert-Toft J, Bosch D, et al. 2002. Upwelling of deep
mantle material through a plate window: evidence from the
geochemistry of Italian basaltic volcanics. Journal of Geophysical
Research 107(12): B12: 2367.
Giaccio B, Arienzo I, Sottili G, et al. 2013. Isotopic (Sr–Nd) and
major element fingerprinting of distal tephras: an application to the
Middle-Late Pleistocene markers from the Colli Albani volcano,
central Italy. Quaternary Science Reviews 67: 190–206.
Giaccio B, Messina P, Sposato A, et al. 2009. Tephra layers from
Holocene lake sediments of the Sulmona basin, central Italy:
implications for volcanic activity in peninsular Italy and tephrostratigraphy
in the central Mediterranean area. Quaternary Science
Reviews 28: 2710–2733.
Giaccio B, Nomade S, Wulf S, et al. 2012. The late MIS 5
Mediterranean tephra markers: a reappraisal from peninsular Italy
terrestrial records. Quaternary Science Reviews 56: 31–45.
Gori S, Giaccio B, Galadini F, et al. 2011. Active normal faulting
along the Mt. Morrone south-western slopes (central Apennines,
Italy). International Journal of Earth Sciences 100: 157–171.
Hu S, Stephenson A, Appel E. 2002. A study of gyroremanent
magnetisation (GRM) and rotational remanent magnetisation (RRM)
carried by greigite from lake sediments. Geophysical Journal
International 151: 469–474.
Kirschvink J. 1980. The least-squares line and plane and the analysis
of palaeomagnetic data. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical
Society 62: 699–718.
Koppers AAP. 2002. ArAr CALC software for 40Ar/39Ar age
calculations. Computers and Geosciences 28: 605–619.
Ku TL. 1979. Th230–U234 dating of pedogenic carbonates in gravelly
desert soils of Videl Valley Southeastern California. Geological
Society of America Bulletin 11: 1063–1073.
Kuiper KF, Deino A, Hilgen FJ, et al. 2008. Synchronizing rock clocks
of Earth history. Science 320: 500–504.
Lourens LJ, Hilgen FJ, Laskar J, et al. 2004. The Neogene period. In A
Geologic Time Scale 2004, Gradstein FM, Ogg J et al. (eds.)
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK; 409–440.
Ludwig KR. 2001. Isoplot 3.0dA Geochronological Toolkit for Microsoft
Excel: Special Publication No. 4. Berkeley Geochronology Center: Berkeley, CA. Massari F, Rio D, Sgavetti M, et al. 2002. Interplay between tectonics
and glacio-eustasy: Pleistocene succession of the Crotone Basin,
Calabria (southern Italy). Geological Society of America Bulletin
114: 1183–1209.
Nomade S, Gauthier A, Guillou H, et al. 2010. 40Ar/39Ar temporal
framework for the Alleret maar lacustrine sequence (French Massif-
Central): volcanological and paleoclimatic implications. Quaternary
Geochronology 5: 20–27.
Perini G, Francalanci L, Davidson JP, et al. 2004. Evolution and
genesis of magmas from Vico volcano, central Italy: multiple
differentiation pathways and variable parental magmas. Journal of
Petrology 45: 139–182.
Piochi M, Ayuso RA, De Vivo B, et al. 2006. Crustal contamination
and crystal entrapment during evolution at Mt. Somma-Vesuvius
volcano, Italy: geochemical and Sr isotopic evidence. Lithos 86:
303–329.
Renne PR, Deino AL, Hames WE, et al. 2009. Data reporting norms
for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Quaternary Geochronology 4: 346–
352.
Renne PR, Mundil R, Balco G, et al. 2011. Response to the comment
by W.H. Schwarz et al. on ‘Joint determination of 40K decay
constants and 40Ar /40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard,
and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology’ by P.R.
Renne et al. (2010). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75: 5097–
5100.
Roberts AP, Chang L, Rowan CJ, et al. 2011. Magnetic properties of
sedimentary greigite (Fe3S4): an update. Reviews of Geophysics 49:
RG1002.
Rogers NW, Hawkesworth CJ, Parker RJ, et al. 1985. The geochemistry
of potassic lavas from Vulsini, central Italy, and implications for
mantle enrichment processes beneath the Roman region. Contributions
to Mineralogy and Petrology 90: 244–257.
Sagnotti L. 2013. Demagnetization Analysis in Excel (DAIE) an
open source workbook in Excel for viewing and analyzing
demagnetization data from paleomagnetic discrete samples and
u-channels. Annals of Geophysics 56: D0114. doi: 10.4401/ag-6282
Sagnotti L, Winkler A. 1999. Rock magnetism and palaeomagnetism
of greigite-bearing mudstones in the Italian peninsula. Earth and
Planetary Sciences Letters 165: 67–80.
Santacroce R, Cioni R, Marianelli P, et al. 2008. Age and whole rockglass
compositions of proximal pyroclastics from the major explosive
eruptions of Somma-Vesuvius: a review as a tool for distal
tephrostratigraphy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
177: 1–18.
Scardia G, Sagnotti L, Giaccio B, et al. 2012. The Brunhes–Matuyama
transition in central Italy lacustrine deposits. Geophysical Research
Abstracts 14: EGU2012–3583.
Somma R, Ayuso RA, De Vivo B, et al. 2001. Major, trace element
and isotope geochemistry (Sr–Nd–Pb) of interplinian magmas from
Mt. Somma Vesuvius (Southern Italy). Mineralogy and Petrology
73: 121–143.
Zijderveld J. 1967. AC demagnetization of rocks: analysis of results.
In Palaeomagnetism, vol. 3, Collinson DW, Creer KM, Runcorn SK
(eds). Elsevier: Amsterdam; 254–268.
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