Single crystal 40Ar-39Ar dating of a Late Quaternary paroxysm on Kos, Greece: Concordance of terrestrial and marine ages

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 3047-3050

  Smith, P E ^a   York, D ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Evensen, N M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE CRYSTALS; ARGON; GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES;

DEEP SEA; LATE QUATERNARY; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLINIAN ERUPTION;

ARGON LASERS; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

LASER-FUSION; LATE QUATERNARY PAROXYSM;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LATE QUATERNARY; PLINIAN ERUPTION; PLINIAN EVENT; QUATERNARY (LATE); STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEPHRA; TERRESTRIAL/MARINE AGES; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

GREECE, KOS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0030265352     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02759     Document Type: Article

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