Global Volcanism Program

Palinuro

Google Earth Placemark with Features

Cite Volcano Profile

Italy
Mediterranean and Western Asia
Submarine
8040 BCE

Country
Volcanic Region
Primary Volcano Type
Last Known Eruption

39.48°N
14.83°E
-70 m
-230 ft
211031

Latitude
Longitude
Summit
Elevation
Volcano
Number

The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports for Palinuro.

The Global Volcanism Program has no Weekly Reports available for Palinuro.

The Global Volcanism Program has no Bulletin Reports available for Palinuro.

Basic Data

Volcano Number

Last Known Eruption

Elevation

Latitude
Longitude

211031

8040 BCE

-70 m / -230 ft

39.48°N
14.83°E

Volcano Types

Submarine
Caldera

Rock Types

Major
Phonolite
Trachyte / Trachydacite
Phono-tephrite / Tephri-phonolite

Tectonic Setting

Subduction zone
Continental crust (> 25 km)

Population

Within 5 km
Within 10 km
Within 30 km
Within 100 km

0
0
0
225,314

Geological Summary

Palinuro seamount in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of the Eolian Islands rises nearly 3000 m to within 70 m of the sea surface and has a horseshoe-shaped summit caldera. A marine ash layer (PL-1) radiocarbon dated (calibrated age) at 9990 +/- 90 years ago is chemically and stratigraphically similiar to two ash layers of similar composition onland in southern Italy and was tentatively correlated to the Palinuro seamount activity (Siani et al., 2004).

References

The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography.

Colantoni P, Lucchini F, Rossi P L, Sartori R, Savelli C, 1981. The Palinuro volcano and magmatism of the southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean). Marine Geol, 39: 1-12.

Siani G, Sulpizio R, Paterne M, Sbrana A, 2004. Tephrostratigraphy study for the last 18,000 14C years in a deep-sea sediment sequence for the South Adriatic. Quat Sci Rev, 23: 2485-2500.

Eruptive History

Summary of Holocene eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

Start Date	Stop Date	Eruption Certainty	VEI	Evidence	Activity Area or Unit
8040 BCE ± 100 years	Unknown	Confirmed		Radiocarbon (corrected)

The Global Volcanism Program has no synonyms or subfeatures listed for Palinuro.

The Global Volcanism Program has no photographs available for Palinuro.

Smithsonian Sample Collections Database

There are no samples for Palinuro in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences Rock and Ore collection.

Affiliated Sites

Large Eruptions of Palinuro

Information about large Quaternary eruptions (VEI >= 4) is cataloged in the Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions (LaMEVE) database of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA).

WOVOdat

WOVOdat is a database of volcanic unrest; instrumentally and visually recorded changes in seismicity, ground deformation, gas emission, and other parameters from their normal baselines. It is sponsored by the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO) and presently hosted at the Earth Observatory of Singapore.

EarthChem

EarthChem develops and maintains databases, software, and services that support the preservation, discovery, access and analysis of geochemical data, and facilitate their integration with the broad array of other available earth science parameters. EarthChem is operated by a joint team of disciplinary scientists, data scientists, data managers and information technology developers who are part of the NSF-funded data facility Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA). IEDA is a collaborative effort of EarthChem and the Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS).

MODVOLC - HIGP MODIS Thermal Alert System

Using infrared satellite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai'i, developed an automated system called MODVOLC to map thermal hot-spots in near real time. For each MODIS image, the algorithm automatically scans each 1 km pixel within it to check for high-temperature hot-spots. When one is found the date, time, location, and intensity are recorded. MODIS looks at every square km of the Earth every 48 hours, once during the day and once during the night, and the presence of two MODIS sensors in space allows at least four hot-spot observations every two days. Each day updated global maps are compiled to display the locations of all hot spots detected in the previous 24 hours. There is a drop-down list with volcano names which allow users to 'zoom-in' and examine the distribution of hot-spots at a variety of spatial scales.

MIROVA

Middle InfraRed Observation of Volcanic Activity (MIROVA) is a near real time volcanic hot-spot detection system based on the analysis of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data. In particular, MIROVA uses the Middle InfraRed Radiation (MIR), measured over target volcanoes, in order to detect, locate and measure the heat radiation sourced from volcanic activity.