A 110,000-Yr Record of Explosive Volcanism from the GISP2 (Greenland) Ice Core

Quaternary Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-118

  Zielinski, Gregory A ^a   Mayewski, Paul A ^a   Meeker, L David ^a   Whitlow, S ^a   Twickler, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GISP2; ICE CORE RECORD; SULPHATE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0030480697     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1996.0013     Document Type: Article

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