40Ar/39Ar ages of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius, Italy

Marvin A. Lanphere; Duane E. Champion; Leone Melluso; Vincenzo Morra; Annamaria Perrotta; Claudio Scarpati; Dario Tedesco; Andrew T. Calvert

doi:10.1007/s00445-006-0071-8

⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius, Italy

Bulletin of Volcanology

By: Marvin A. Lanphere, Duane E. Champion, Leone Melluso, Vincenzo Morra, Annamaria Perrotta, Claudio Scarpati, Dario Tedesco, and Andrew T. Calvert

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-006-0071-8

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Abstract

The Italian volcano, Vesuvius, erupted explosively in AD 79. Sanidine from pumice collected at Casti Amanti in Pompeii and Villa Poppea in Oplontis yielded a weighted-mean ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age of 1925±66 years in 2004 (1σ uncertainty) from incremental-heating experiments of eight aliquants of sanidine. This is the calendar age of the eruption. Our results together with the work of Renne et al. (1997) and Renne and Min (1998) demonstrate the validity of the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method to reconstruct the recent eruptive history of young, active volcanoes.

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Publication type	Article
Publication Subtype	Journal Article
Title	40Ar/39Ar ages of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius, Italy
Series title	Bulletin of Volcanology
DOI	10.1007/s00445-006-0071-8
Volume	69
Issue	3
Year Published	2007
Language	English
Publisher	Springer
Contributing office(s)	Volcano Hazards Program
Description	5 p.
First page	259
Last page	263
Country	Italy
Other Geospatial	Vesuvius
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