Table of Contents - SPE263: The Mechanisms of Recent Vertical Crustal Movements in Campi Flegrei Caldera, Southern Italy

Acknowledgments

Abstract

Introduction

Tectonic and geologic setting

Historical setting

Greek and Roman expansion
Types of Roman coastal structures
Roman construction around Pozzuoli Bay
The Roman breakwater at Puteoli: The Bridge of Caligula
The Roman marketplace at Puteoli: Serapis Middle Ages

Previous scientific studies

1750 to 1820
1820 to 1845: Niccolini and Forbes
1845 to 1900: Babbage and Lyell
1900 to 1940: R. T. Gunther
1940 to 1969: Parascandola and Oliveri del Castillo
1970 to 1988: Second historical period of uplift

Global sea level changes

Descriptions of ancient coastal sites

Astura to Formia
Pontine Islands
Ponza
Ventotene Ischia (the Roman island Pithecusa)
Pozzuoli Bay
Miseno (the Roman port Misenum)
Baia (the Roman city Baiae)
Lake Lucrino (the Roman port Portus Julius)
Temple of Neptune
Serapis
The Bridge of Caligula
Nisida (the Roman port Nesis) Posillipo
Gaiola (the Roman port Pausilypon)
Villa Rosebery Herculaneum and Pompeii
Sorrentine Peninsula and the Island of Capri
Sorrento (the Roman city Surrentum)
Capri (the Roman island Capreae) South of the Sorrentine Peninsula
Paestum
San Marco and Velia (the Greek city Velea)

When did vertical movement occur at Campi Flegrei?

Observations of sea level change; 1750 to the present
Roman Age to 1750
From 8,000 years ago to the Roman Age
15,000 years ago; Wurm regression surface

Discussion

Regional extension and subsidence
Vertical movement at other volcanic calderas
Expansion of a magmatic body as the cause for uplift
Possible causes for local subsidence in Campi Flegrei

Summary

Authors' note

References cited