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Cartografia geochimica ambientale dei suoli del complesso vulcanico del Somma-Vesuvio = : Environmental geochemical mapping of soils of Somma-Vesuvius volcanic complex
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Roma : SystemCart Srl,

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Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei, and Campanian volcanism
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ISBN: 9780128175187 0128175184 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands Elsevier

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Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei, and Campanian Volcanism communicates the state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on past and active volcanism in an area characterized by elevated risk due to high-density population. Eruptions, lahars and poisonous gas clouds have killed many thousands of people over recorded history, but volcanoes have given people some of the most fertile soil known in agriculture. The research presented in this book is useful for policymakers and researchers from these and other countries who are looking for risk assessment and volcanic evolution models they can apply to similar situations around the world. Naples and its surrounding area, in particular, the area situated between Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei volcanic area has a population in excess of 4 million people. The volcanic areas that have similarly large populations in proximity to dormant, but hazardous volcanoes, i.e., Indonesia and Central America can also benefit from this work. Covers the fundamental science of volcanoes, including new developments in the last decade relating to the use of crystals and melt inclusions to model the nature and evolution of volatiles Includes the latest research on volcanism in Southern Italy that is presented as a case study for active and inactive volcanoes across the globe Presents research that is applicable around the world, for people, scientists and policymakers living on, or near, active volcanoes

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Tremblements de terre, éruptions volcaniques et vie des hommes dans la Campanie antique

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L'histoire des hommes en Campanie est indissociable des manifestations d'une terre toujours en travail. Ici, l'archéologue et l'historien doivent collaborer étroitement avec le volcanologue et le géophysicien pour reconstruire un passé sur lequel les phénomènes naturels — éruptions, séismes, bradysisme — ont imprimé leur marque indélébile. C'est un premier bilan de cette entreprise pluridisciplinaire que dresse ce volume : des chercheurs en Sciences Humaines du CNRS et des Surintendances Archéologiques Campaniennes, des spécialistes des Sciences de la Terre des Universités de Naples et de Pise se penchent, en une série d'enquêtes complémentaires, sur la zone vésuvienne et les Champs Phlégréens (Ischia comprise). La documentation archéologique et l'analyse géophysique se confortent mutuellement pour permettre de dater un certain nombre d'événements éruptifs et telluriques, depuis la Préhistoire jusqu'à l'Antiquité tardive (et, au-delà, jusqu'au seuil de l'époque moderne), d'évaluer l'ampleur et la périodicité de ceux-ci, d'en mesurer les conséquences sur les populations lorsque leur économie, leurs conditions de vie, leur culture, se trouvent, à l'improviste, ruinées par la catastrophe.

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