LE FUMAROLE DI VULCANO (EOLIE): UN LABORATORIO CHIMICO NATURALE

Abstract

The minerals from volcanic fumaroles have long attracted the interest of scientists: among these persons, we find not only geologists or volcanologists in the strict sense, but chemists and physicists as well, with a long series of publications spanning an interval of more than three centuries. Whereas Vesuvius was the most “classical” locality for such observations until the last half of the 20th century, in recent times Vulcano in the Aeolian islands has become instead the most promising locality in Europe for such studies, which provide a series of important observations involving several disciplines.