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QUATERNARY pumice has been produced in at least ten volcanic eruptions in the southern Aegean, from volcanoes on the islands of Melos, Santorini, and various of the Dodecanese. This multiplicity of sources has not been generally recognised before, but it should be taken into account in submarine core sampling.
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BOND, A. Multiple sources of pumice in the Aegean. Nature 259, 194–195 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259194a0
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