I please you to send me some information about Roccamonfina volcano (Campania, South Italy) and also some reference.

rocky Alfredo Lieberknecht

Dear Alfredo,

I have to admit I'd never heard of Roccamonfina before. I found a reference to it in "Historical Unrest at Large Calderas of the World" by Chris Newhall and Dan Dzurisin. They describe Roccamonfina as a stratovolcano about 18 km in diameter with a 5-6 km-diameter main caldera. They are uncertain whether or not there really has been any historic activity there, but there are old Roman writings that have been interpreted to have been Roccamonfina eruptions. Some references are:

Newhall CG, and Dzurisin D (1988). Historical unrest at large calderas of the world. US Geological Survey Professional Paper no. 1855.

Giannetti B (1979). The geology of Roccamonfina caldera (Campanian Province, Italy). Giornale Geol. vol. 43, pp. 187-206.

Giannetti B (1982). Roccamonfina Volcano, Italy. Volcano News, no. 12, pp. 1-3.

Giannetti B (1982). Cumulate inclusions from K-rich magmas, Roccamonfina Volcano, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 57, pp. 313-333.

Luhr JF and Giannetti B (1987). The brown leucitic tuff of Roccamonfina Volano (Roman region, Italy). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 95, pp. 420-436.

Stouthers JF and Rampino MR (1983). Volcanic eruptions in the Mediterranean before A.D. 630, from written and archaeological sources. Journal of Geophysical Research vol. 88, pp. 6357-6371.

Tedesco G (1965). Main lines of the history of the Roccamonfina Volcano. Bulletin of Volcanology vol. 28, pp. 119-137.

I hope these help.

Scott Rowland, University of Hawaii 

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