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14C Ages of the Last Eruptive Stage of Faial Island Caldeira Volcano

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2016

J M Pacheco
J M Pacheco*
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Centro de Vulcanologia e Avaliação de Riscos Geológicos, Universidade dos Açores, Rua de S. Gonçalo, 9501-801 Ponta Delgada, Portugal. Email: jose.mr.pacheco@azores.gov.pt
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Faial is one of the nine islands that form the Azores archipelago in the North Atlantic, characterized by a complex geodynamic setting dominated by the triple point where the North American, Eurasian, and African lithospheric plates meet (Figure 1).

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Radiocarbon , Volume 57 , Issue 5 , 2015 , pp. 1021 - 1027
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Copyright © 2015 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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