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Which Italian volcanoes are associated with faults along the western side of the Apennines?

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Large faults that developed along the western side of the Apennines over the past million years have facilitated significant volcanic activity, resulting in a chain of volcanoes extending from Tuscany to Sicily.1

The volcanoes associated with these faults include:

This volcanic activity is linked to crustal thinning that began approximately 10 million years ago, which also contributed to the formation of the Tyrrhenian Sea.1