Socio-ecological impact of monogenetic volcanism in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Iberia).

ABSTRACT: Volcanism can cause major impacts, including climate change and mass extinctions. However, the impact of monogenetic volcanism is often considered as limited in volcanological research. This work provides for the first time an interdisciplinary approach to the socio-ecological impact of monogenetic volcanism in a key region, the La Garrotxa Volcanic Field (GVF, Girona, NE Iberia), where intense monogenetic volcanic activity occurred in the past. The analyses of a sedimentary sequence from the GVF enabled identifying previously unknown volcanic eruptions in the time interval 14-8.4 ka cal BP, constrain their volcanic stratigraphy and age, and unfold the effects of environmental change on geomorphology, vegetation, aquatic organisms and humans. Moreover, we reconstruct the major palaeoenviro

SUBMITTER: Revelles J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10199944 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature