Global Volcanism Program

Palinuro

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Italy
Mediterranean and W Asia
Submarine
8040 BCE

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Volcanic Region
Primary Volcano Type
Last Known Eruption

39.48°N
14.83°E
-70 m
-230 ft
211031

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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.

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).

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.

The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title.

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.

Volcano Types
Submarine Caldera
Tectonic Setting
Subduction zone Continental crust (> 25 km)
Rock Types
Major Phonolite Trachyte / Trachyandesite Phono-tephrite / Tephri-phonolite
Population
Within 5 km Within 10 km Within 30 km Within 100 km	0 0 0 225,314

Affiliated Databases
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).
Smithsonian Collections	Search the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences collections database. Go to the "Search Rocks and Ores" tab and use the Volcano Name drop-down to find samples.

Palinuro

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Affiliated Databases