Widespread syn-eruptive volcaniclastic deposits in the Pleistocenic basins of South-Western Calabria

Since late Tortonian, depositional sequences developed along the Southern Calabrian forearc, inside the half-graben depressions of the Mesima-Gioia Tauro and Reggio Calabria basins. In these basins volcaniclastic sedimentation took place during lower to middle Pleistocene. Volcaniclastic deposits consist of isolated pumice swarms, ash layers and thick successions of lapilli and ash.