Rose Gallo, Guido Giordano, and Aurora Silleni sample tephra deposits.A wall of pumice fall.The field team samples a large wall of pumice fall and pyroclastic density current deposits.A sample of fresh pumice.The team explores pumice and ignimbrite deposits.A chunk of the classic “welded gray tuff”, which is actually not very welded. A light gray ashy matrix supports small to large sized black scoria clasts.A layer of pumice-bearing tephra fall (dark brown with white spots) sits atop a fine ash layer (tan) at a site some kilometers from the CI ventVictoria Smith collects crystal-bearing ash fall deposits in search of apatite crystals.Rose Gallo samples the distal deposit of the Campanian Ignimbrite.Michael Ort scouts for a sampling location in the distal deposits of the CI.
