The contribution of the first italian geologists to the knowledge of the Anatolian Cenozoic volcanism

The history of research on Anatolia volcanism began in the early 60s of the last century and continued up to now. Early researches were published in 1966 and had as main topics the Central Anatolia. Subsequently, researchers from the University of Pisa studied the link between the volcanism of Western Anatolia and Aegean Sea region. Later researches shifted again towards the Central Anatolia and moved to the north-eastern region of Lake Van and the Kars plateau. All the collected data were merged in a review paper in 1982 (Innocenti et alii, 1982b), which summarized the evolution of Neogene Volcanism in Anatolia that constitutes a milestone and, mainly from a stratigraphic point of view, is largely still valid.