Cenozoic volcanism in the Tyrrhenian sea region / Кайнозойский вулканизм в регионе Тирренского моря

The Cenozoic volcanism in the Tyrrhenian Sea region shows a very wide range of petrological, geochemical and isotopic compositions, which cover almost entirely the field of igneous rock occurring worldwide. Volcanic activity took place contemporaneously with the opening of the Ligurian-Provenзal and Tyrrhenian Sea basins, and with the formation of the Apennine-Maghrebian chain. Its occurrence in the hearth of the Mediterranean Sea and the spectacular eruptions of active volcanoes such as Etna and Vesuvio, attracted the attention of scholars since ancient times. Modern science has been interested to this volcanism because of its compositional complexity and the variety of volcanological processes taking place at the active and dormant centres. My book published by Springer in 2005 and entitled Plio-Quaternary Volcanism in Italy. Petrology, Geochemistry, Geodynamics summarised the state of knowledge of Tyrrhenian Sea volcanism at the time of publication. However, studies have been enormously expanding in the last 10 years, and huge amounts of data and ideas have been published on various aspects of this complex subject. <...>