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Santorini: tectonic setting and island map with photo-statistical sampling sites. Upper left inset shows the development of Santorini’s pre-Minoan caldera models6,10,12,13,14,15,16,17. Units A to D refer to the deposits of the four phases of the Minoan eruption.