Scientists have discovered that before the present island of Kameni inside the famous Caldera of the iconic island of Santorini, created after the eruption of the volcano some 3600 years ago, there was a much older Kameni at about the same point, which was completely destroyed by the volcanic eruption, an Athens-Macedonian News Agency report says.
For the first time, Greek and international scientists who studied the underwater remnants at the bottom of that Minoan eruption, as well as the Andesian lava pieces in the pumice stone, proceeded to reconstitute the so-called pre-Kameni Caldera and calculated its extent, the way it was created and its age.
About 22,000 years ago another big explosion had occurred in Thira — the so-called Riva explosion, from which a large semi-caldera was built. Inside it, an island was formed, the pre-Kameni, which was later destroyed, along with parts of Thira and Thirassia and it was gradually raised within it during the most recent Minoan eruption.
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