Santorini VOLCANO PHOTOS
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Rocks of Santorini: some impressions |
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| Discordant volcanic layers (flow breccia, ash and scoria fall) from 60-20,000 years ago. | Beautiful exposed volcanic dike on northern Santorini. | Old welded red pyroclastic flow deposits in the cliffs of southern Thera | Steep cliff of Palea Kameni volcanic island, exposing the interior of a lava dome (Santorini, Greece) |
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| Red tuffs and lava flows in the cliffs of Therasia | Folded schists | Ash tuff layers at the sea cliff of the caldera of Santorini | Rob at the red Cape Riva ignimbrite (18ka BP) |
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| Limestone at Profitis Ilisa mountain | Pumice and ash cliff, Southern Thera | Sulphate crusts at a fumarole, Nea Kameni island | eautiful breadcrust bomb on Nea Kameni, Santorini |
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Minoan pumice and ash layer (1645 BC eruption deposits) |
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| Phase 2 deposit (surges) | The Minoan soil (brown), the thin layer of precursory activity, and the first pumice fall out layer. | Phase 1 and 2 (fall out and surges) deposit | Phase 3 and 4 deposits (massive ash flows) at the south coast of Santorini |
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| Massive ash flow deposit (phase 3, BO-3) | Massive ash flow deposit (phase 3, BO-3) with tafoni erosion patterns | Sculptured phase 3/4 deposits at the southern cliffs | Eroded Minoan tuff at the cliffs near the Akrotiri lighthouse |
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