Talk:Peperino

Peperite
I forgot about this one. Peperino as far as I can make out was first used to describe what are now called peperites in the Limagne area of France by George Julius Poulett Scrope. However, given that Scrope had spent some time previously in Italy studying volcanoes before that, it's possible that he brought the term with him and it was used by Charles Lyell in 1833 to describe similar rocks in Sicily, so again he may have been using an existing Italian word (it seems that I was correct - see the quote here from Lyell). I'll try to see if I can find any support for my suppositions, but, however the name came about, the term used by geologists these days for this rock type is 'peperite'. Mikenorton (talk) 20:11, 5 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Indeed it's clear that Skilling et al. didn't look too far into Scrope's work, because a footnote here, shows that he also borrowed the term from Italian geologists. Mikenorton (talk) 20:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC)