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The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri , as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and paleotsunamis . [ 4 ]
Santorini caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece.Visible above water is the circular Santorini island group, consisting of Santorini (classic Greek Thera), the main island, Therasia and Aspronisi at the periphery, and the Kameni islands at the center.
Pumice, here: northern shelving coast. Eruption of 165 ka buried it all. Akrotiri ( Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek: [akroˈtiri]) is the site of a Cycladic Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The name comes from the nearby village of Akrotiri .
Kolumbo is an active submarine volcano in the Aegean Sea in Greece, about 8 km northeast of Cape Kolumbo, Santorini island. The largest of a line of about twenty submarine volcanic cones extending to the northeast from Santorini, [1] it is about 3 km in diameter with a crater 1.5 km across. [2] It first noticed by humans when it breached the ...
Santorini ( Greek: Σαντορίνη, romanized : Santoríni, pronounced [sa (n)doˈrini] ), officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα, romanized: Thíra, pronounced [ˈθira]) or Thera, [ a] is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from its mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed ...
The South Aegean Volcanic Arc is a volcanic arc (chain of volcanoes) in the South Aegean Sea formed by plate tectonics. The prior cause was the subduction of the African Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate, raising the Aegean arc across what is now the North Aegean Sea. It was not yet the sea, nor an arc, or at least not the one it is today, nor ...
In many cases the water is supplied by the sea, such as in the Surtsey eruption. In other cases the water may be present in a lake or caldera-lake, as at Santorini, where the phreatomagmatic component of the Minoan eruption was a result of both a lake and later the sea. There have also been examples of interaction between magma and water in an ...
The eruption of the Thera volcano on what is now the island of Santorini is of particular significance to the chronology of Minoan history. The Theran eruption plays a role in both the high and low chronological approaches, although there is a difference in the date range each system assigns to the event.