TY - JOUR N2 - The dating of the cores we drilled from the Gallipoli terrace in the Gulf of Taranto (Ionian Sea), previously obtained by tephroanalysis, is checked by applying a method to objectively recognize volcanic events. This automatic statistical procedure allows identifying pulse-like features in a series and evaluating quantitatively the confidence level at which the significant peaks are detected. We applied it to the 2000-years-long pyroxenes series of the GT89-3 core, on which the dating is based. The method confirms the dating previously performed by detecting at a high confidence level the peaks originally used and indicates a few possible undocumented eruptions. Moreover, a spectral analysis, focussed on the long-term variability of the pyroxenes series and performed by several advanced methods, reveals that the volcanic pulses are superimposed to a millennial trend and a 400 years oscillation. SP - 25 A1 - Taricco, Carla A1 - Alessio, Silvia A1 - Vivaldo, Gianna PB - European Geosciences Union SN - 1607-7946 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/npg-15-25-2008 IS - 1 JF - Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics AV - public TI - Sequence of eruptive events in the Vesuvio area recorded in shallow-water Ionian Sea sediments Y1 - 2008/// VL - 15 EP - 32 ID - eprints2349 ER -