An exeptionally thick Middle Pleistocene tephra layer from Epirus, Greece

Quaternary Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 280-286

  Pyle, David M ^a   Van Andel, Tjeerd H ^a   Paschos, Panayiotis ^b   Van Den Bogaard, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Inst for Geol and Mineral Explor   (Greece)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKER; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC DEPOSIT;

GREECE;

EID: 0032075874     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1963     Document Type: Article

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