Italy · Complex volcano
Marsili
- Type
- Complex volcano
- Elevation
- 779m (submarine)
- Last eruption
- -1050
- Type
- Complex volcano
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Europe / Aeolian Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 779m (submarine)
- Coordinates
- 39.284, 14.399
- Last eruption
- -1050
- Landform
- Composite
Geological summary
The Marsili seamount is a 50-km-long volcanic ridge in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea within a back-arc basin about 75-85 km NW of the Aeolian arc volcanoes.
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From Wikipedia
Marsili is a large undersea volcano in the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is located approximately 140 kilometers (87 mi) north of Sicily and approximately 150 kilometers (93 mi) west of Calabria. The seamount is about 3,000 m tall; its peak and crater are about 450 m below the sea surface. Though it has not erupted in recorded history, volcanologists believe that Marsili is a relatively fragile-walled structure, made of low-density and unstable rocks, fed by the underlying shallow magma chamber. Volcanologists with the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) announced on March 29, 2010, that Marsili could erupt at any time, and might experience a catastrophic collapse that would suddenly release vast amounts of magma in an undersea eruption and landslide that could trigger destructive tsunamis on the Italian coast and nearby Mediterranean coastlines.
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Eruption history
2 recordedGlossaryRecord summary
- Confirmed eruptions
- 2
- Uncertain eruptions
- 0
- Span of confirmed record
- 3050 BCE (±200 yrs) – 1050 BCE
- Largest confirmed eruption
- No VEI recorded
- Confirmed eruptions since 1900
- 0
Detailed timeline
- 1050 BCE (±200 yrs)VEI ?Geological estimate1050 BCE – end unknown
- 3050 BCE (±200 yrs)VEI ?Geological estimate3050 BCE – end unknown
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External links
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