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Monte Nuovo Italy
Monte NuovoElevation 458 m (1,503 ft) Location Coordinates 40°50′00″N 14°05′00″E / 40.8333333°N 14.0833333°ECoordinates: 40°50′00″N 14°05′00″E / 40.8333333°N 14.0833333°E Geology Type Cinder cone Volcanic arc/belt Campanian volcanic arc Last eruption 1538 
Monte Nuovo
Monte Nuovo is a cinder cone volcano within the Campi Flegrei caldera, near Naples, southern Italy. A series of damaging earthquakes and changes in land elevation preceded its only eruption, which lasted from September 29 to October 6, 1538, when it was formed.[1] The event is important in the history of science because it was the first eruption in modern times to be described by a large number of witnesses.[2]
Volcanologists feared another eruption[3] between 1969 and 1984, when there were again earthquakes and changes in land elevations in the area.[4][5]
Notes
- ^ Di Vito, Mauro; and others (1987). "The 1538 Monte Nuovo eruption (Campi Flegrei, Italy)". Bulletin of Volcanology 49 (4).
- ^ Scarth, Alwyn (1999) "Chapter 4: Nonte Nuovo, 1538" Vulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, pp.43-56, page 43, ISBN 0-300-07541-3
- ^ Barberi, F.; Corrado, G.; Innocenti, F. and Luongo, G. (1984) "Phlegraean Fields 1982–1984: Brief chronicle of a volcano emergency in a densely populated area" Bulletin of Volcanology 47(2): pp. 175-185
- ^ Del Pezzo, E.; De Natale, G. and Zoloo, A. (1984) "Space-time distribution of small earthquakes at Phlegraean Fields, south-central Italy" Bulletin of Volcanology 47(2): pp. 201-207
- ^ Bianchi, R.; Coradini, A.; Federico, C.; Giberti, G.; Sartoris, G. and Scandone, R. (1984) "Modelling of surface ground deformations in the Phlegraean Fields volcanic area, Italy" Bulletin of Volcanology 47(2): pp. 321-330
References
- Piero Giacomo da Toledo (1539) Ragionamento del terremoto, del Nvovo monte, del aprimento di terra in Pozvolo nel anno 1538; e dela significatione d'essi Napoli, Giouanni Sulztbah alemano
- "Campi Flegrei". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0101-01=.
- Scarth, Alwyn (1999) "Chapter 4: Nonte Nuovo, 1538" Vulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, pp. 43–56, ISBN 0-300-07541-3
Categories:- Campanian volcanic arc
- Cinder cones
- Mountains of Italy
- Volcanoes of Italy
- Volcanology stubs
- Campanian geography stubs
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