Volcanic aerosol records and tephrochronology of the Summit, Greenland, ice cores

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 102, Issue C12, 1997, Pages 26625-26640

  Zielinski, Gregory A ^a   Mayewski, Paul A ^a   Meeker, L David ^a   Grönvold, Karl ^b   Germani, Mark S ^c   Whitlow, Sallie ^a   Twickler, Mark S ^a   Taylor, Kendrick ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c MVA Inc ^*  (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERUPTION HISTORY; GISP2; GRIP; PALAEOCLIMATE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC AEROSOL;

EID: 0031448570     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JC03547     Document Type: Article

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