La Erupción que Cristobal Colón vio en Tenerife (Islas Canariras)

Geological field work, including detailed cartography and strict stratigraphic control together with radicarbon ages, have confirmed the historical date of the volcanic eruption that Christopher Columbus observed in the summits of the island of Tenerife in 1492. The last eruption of the Teide stratovolcano, known as the “Black Lavas” and repeatedly associated to this historical reference, has been definitively discarded in favour of Boca Cangrejo (Crab’s Mouth) volcano, located in the NW rift of the island, and which can thus be considered to be the fifth historical eruption of Tenerife, confirming the annotation written in the ship’s log of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to America.

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Main Authors: Carracedo, Juan Carlos, Rodríguez Badiola, Eduardo, Pérez Torrado, Francisco José, Hansen Machín, Álex, Rodríguez González, Alejandro, Scaillet, Stéphane, Guillou, Hervé, Paterne, Martine, Fra-Paleo, U., Paris, Raphael
Other Authors: Caja Canarias
Format: artículo biblioteca
Language:Spanish / Castilian
Published: 2008-01-30T10:22:41Z
Subjects:Christopher Columbus, 1492, Boca Cangrejo volcano, Teide volcano, Tenerife (Canary Islands), Volcanic eruption,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2786
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007273
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