Stone by stone
by Silvia Inzoli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
The town of Santa Fiora (GR) is located on the south-western hillside of Mount Amiata, on a rhyolitic complex with columnar structure. The Amiata volcanic complex belongs to the Tuscan Magmatic province (TMP). The TMP consists of a large variety of intrusive and extrusive rocks, with chemical composition ranging from mafic to acid and ultrapotassic, associated to different stages of a magmatic activity started in the Middle Miocene. Mount Amiata last eruption dates back to 180.000 years ago, but a strong thermal activity is still registered and fuels both some hot water bathing centres and high entalpy geothermal power plants.
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2010
Submitted on 16 February 2015
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- Energy, Resources and the Environment (247)
- Field (2552)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (781)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (490)
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- Europe (3216)
- Southern Europe (1383)
- Italy (331)
- Exact location (11.5843 E, 42.8313 N)
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