Curatela del volume internazionale "Volcanoes: geological and geophysical setting, theoretical aspects and numerical modeling, applications to industry and their impact on the human health "

Aims of this book are to describe the relationships between volcanology, tephrostratigraphy and volcanic stratigraphy in selected case histories of the Mediterranean sea. Particular attention will be focused on case histories located in Vesuvius, Ischia and Phlegraean Fields volcanic complexes of Southern Italy. Different models on the geological structure of the active calderas of Southern Italy and their present-day unrest state are taken into account in order to improve the discussion of the volcanological aspects related with the seismo-stratigraphic setting of the Gulf of Pozzuoli, representing the submerged border of the Phlegrean caldera. In the frame of research themes pertaining to the volcanic geology of the Campania continental margin, a stratigraphic correlation between the Gulf of Pozzuoli and Ischia island volcanic areas, whose geological data have been previously collected, has been performed and is herein presented, highlighting new interesting implications and results on the geology of the Naples Gulf. Important marker horizons studied through tephrostratigraphy should be recognized using integrated studies including petrography, petrology, geochemistry and tephrostratigraphy, which, coupled with seismic stratigraphy, could give new insights on the knowledge of volcanically-controlled sedimentary basins of Southern Italy and widely of the Mediterranean area.