All Toba tephra occurrences across peninsular India belong to the 75 000 yr BP eruption

Quaternary Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-112

  Westgate, John A ^a   Shane, Philip A R ^b   Pearce, Nicholas J G ^c   Perkins, William T ^c   Korisettar, Ravi ^d   Chesner, Craig A ^e   Williams, Martin A J ^f   Acharyya, Subhrangsu K ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d KARNATAK UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^g GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; QUATERNARY; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0032446365     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1974     Document Type: Article

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