Regular ArticlesAge of Ancient Monuments by Means of Building Stone Provenance: a Case Study of the Tullianum, Rome, Italy
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A review of the stratigraphy of Rome (Italy) according to geochronologically and paleomagnetically constrained aggradational successions, glacio-eustatic forcing and volcano-tectonic processes
2017, Quaternary InternationalCitation Excerpt :The lack of any significant deposit ascribable to the deposit of the TGVT, despite the huge volume of erupted products whose total was estimated to be about 10 km3 (Masotta et al., 2010), is evidently a consequence of the emplacement along the Tiber and Aniene valleys during the initial stages of the regressive phase associated with MIS 14, and the following erosion during the lowstand. In contrast, the pyroclastic-flow deposits of the third eruptive cycle of the Morlupo center (Prima Porta Eruptive Cycle, 514 ± 6 ka; Marra et al., 2014a), emplaced during Glacial Termination VI (Marra et al., 2008), are well preserved within the whole Tiber Valley in Rome, where they crop out above the TP at the Capitoline and Palatine Hills (Karner et al., 2001c; Corazza et al., 2004), and were described at Porta Cavalleggeri by Marra and Rosa (1995a) (Figs. 10 and 11). These MSVD units are the Tufo Giallo di Prima Porta (TGPP) and the Grottarossa Pyroclastic Sequence (GRPS) (Karner et al., 2001a), dated 514 ± 6 and 508 ± 9 ka respectively (Marra et al., 2014a).
Geochemical identification criteria for "peperino" stones employed in ancient Roman buildings: A Lapis Gabinus case study
2015, Journal of Archaeological Science: ReportsCitation Excerpt :One sample collected from a block of the Tullianum wall yielded age of 36 ± 1 ka, identical to that yielded by a sample of Lapis Albanus collected in the ancient Roman quarries in Marino, ruling out the use of Tufo del Palatino, which has a radiometric age of 530 ± 2 ka (Karner et al., 2001a; Marra et al., 2009). The same paper by Karner et al. (2001b) provides another example of the difficulty in recognizing different pyroclastic rocks characterized by similar macroscopic petrographic appearance. The authors demonstrate that the “cappellaccio” tuff occurring on the Palatine Hill, in which the so-called “huts” that are considered the remains of the earliest settlement in Rome were excavated (Carandini, 2011; Alessandri, 2013), is not Tufo del Palatino, but a different pyroclastic-flow unit erupted by the Monti Sabatini Volcanic District: the Grottarossa Pyroclastic Sequence.
The alban hills and monti sabatini volcanic products used in ancient roman masonry (Italy): An integrated stratigraphic, archaeological, environmental and geochemical approach
2011, Earth-Science ReviewsCitation Excerpt :X-ray diffraction analyses, which reveal the primary volcanic and secondary authigenic mineral assemblages of the aggregates, and bulk chemical analyses provide important information, but often these are not sufficiently diverse to identify the provenance (Lancaster et al., 2010,in press). Radioisotopic dating using 40Ar/39Ar methods have been shown to be a powerful tool for the identification of diverse eruptive deposits of the Latial volcanoes (e.g. Karner et al., 2001a, 2001b; Marra et al., 2003; Freda et al., 2006; Giaccio et al., 2009). Even so, this dating method is not suitable for analysis of the volcanic aggregate of the ancient mortars, where millimeter-sized pumice clasts are distributed through a fine-grained binding matrix.
The history of the Monti Sabatini and Alban Hills volcanoes: Ground for assessing volcanic-tectonic hazards for Rome
2001, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchCitation Excerpt :Its areal distribution, thickness and petrologic features (Fig. 5c) are similar to those of the distal facies of the Tufo Giallo di Prima Porta, showing that it is a pyroclastic flow that was emplaced within the Aniene River valley. We determined the age of the Grottarossa Pyroclastic Sequence-a subunit from a sample collected on the Palatine Hill (Karner et al., in press) where the base and top of the Grottarossa Pyroclastic Sequence were not exposed. Here both sanidine and leucite were dated, their combined data yielded an age of 518±5 ka.
The Capture of the Capitoline in Roman Historical Thinking
2023, MnemosyneThe peperino rocks: historical and volcanological overview
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