Correlation between rate of sea-level change and frequency of explosive volcanism in the Mediterranean

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6650, 1997, Pages 473-476

  McGuire, W J ^a   Howarth, R J ^a   Firth, C R ^b   Solow, A R ^c   Pullen, A D ^d   Saunders, S J ^b   Stewart, I S ^b   Vita Finz, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

PALAEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY VOLCANISM; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGES; TEPHRA; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE; VOLCANO;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0030828476     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38998     Document Type: Article

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