Tephra analysis of sediments from Midge Lake (South Shetland Islands) and Sombre Lake (South Orkney Islands), Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-20

  Hodgson, Dominic A ^a   Dyson, Coral L ^b   Jones, Vivienne J ^b   Smellie, John L ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deception Island; Lakes; Livingston Island; Palaeolimnology; Signy Island; Tephra; Volcanoes

Indexed keywords

LAKE SEDIMENT; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC GLASS;

ANTARTICA; MIDGE LAKE; SOMBRE LAKE; SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

EID: 0031942435     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0954102098000030     Document Type: Article

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