Sleeping Giant or Restless Beast? The Tuff Layer Behind Italy’s Campi Flegrei Caldera’s Shivers
Under Naples, Italy’s busy streets, a sleeping titan stirs. For decades, the large, smoldering volcanic crater known as Campi Flegrei has been shaking, baffling researchers with its regular but non-eruptive movement. New studies now point to a secret offender: a brittle layer of tuff rock compromised by millennia of magma intrusions that absorbs volcanic gases ...