Duane E. Champion Leone Melluso Vincenzo Morra Annamaria Perrotta Claudio Scarpati Dario Tedesco Andrew T. Calvert Marvin A. Lanphere 2007 <p><span>The Italian volcano, Vesuvius, erupted explosively in&nbsp;</span><span class="EmphasisTypeSmallCaps ">AD<span>&nbsp;</span></span><span>79. Sanidine from pumice collected at Casti Amanti in Pompeii and Villa Poppea in Oplontis yielded a weighted-mean&nbsp;</span>⁴⁰<span>Ar/</span>³⁹<span>Ar age of 1925±66 years in 2004 (1σ uncertainty) from incremental-heating experiments of eight aliquants of sanidine. This is the calendar age of the eruption. Our results together with the work of Renne et al. (</span><span class="CitationRef">1997</span><span>) and Renne and Min (</span><span class="CitationRef">1998</span><span>) demonstrate the validity of the&nbsp;</span>⁴⁰<span>Ar/</span>³⁹<span>Ar method to reconstruct the recent eruptive history of young, active volcanoes.</span></p> application/pdf 10.1007/s00445-006-0071-8 en Springer 40Ar/39Ar ages of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius, Italy article