Explosive activity of the last 1000 years at La Soufriere, St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles

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dc.contributor.authorCole, P.D
dc.contributor.authorRobertson, R.E.A
dc.contributor.authorFedele, L
dc.contributor.authorScarpati, C
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-03T15:31:09Z
dc.date.created2019
dc.description.abstractThe products of explosive activity of La Soufrière volcano on the island of St Vincent over the last 1000 years are described. Dates for the different eruptions were determined using information from contemporary accounts, fieldwork and radiocarbon dating. Scoria-flow type pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) dominate the products of both the historical eruptions (1979, 1902–03, 1718/1812 CE) and prehistoric eruptions (~1580 and 1440 CE) with subordinate fallout components associated with several eruptions. Radiocarbon dating shows that these six eruptions define a crude cyclicity with repose periods ranging between 77 and ~140 years and systematically decreasing in more recent times.
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.01.002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2139/58336
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 371, pp. 86-1000
dc.subject.otherradiocarbon dating
dc.subject.otherprehistoric eruptions
dc.titleExplosive activity of the last 1000 years at La Soufriere, St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles
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