Palea Kameni (South Aegean)

Volcano: Santorini (see Santorini at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab)
Type: Bubbling Water
Description: Gas bubbling in the sea in the bay of Agios Nikolaos on the north-eastern coast of the island of Palea Kameni. Abundant deposition of iron oxides.


Point of contact for this site:
Walter D'Alessandro, walter.dalessandro@ingv.it (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)

No measurements available for this site.



Bibliographic references for this site

Rizzo A.L., Barberi F., Carapezza M.L., Di Piazza A., Francalanci L., Sortino F., D’Alessandro W., 2015,New mafic magma refilling a quiescent volcano: Evidence from He-Ne-Ar isotopes during the 2011–2012 unrest at Santorini, Greece, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol.16, n.3, pp. 798-814, DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005653


Tassi F., Vaselli O., Papazachos C.B., Giannini L., Chiodini G., Vougioukalakis G.E., Karagianni E., Vamvakaris D., Panagiotopoulos D., 2013,Geochemical and isotopic changes in the fumarolic and submerged gas discharges during the 2011–2012 unrest at Santorini caldera (Greece), Bulletin of Volcanology, vol.75, pp. 711, DOI: 10.1007/s00445-013-0711-8


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