Impact of tephra fall and environmental change: a 1000 year record from Matakana Island, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 161, Issue , 1999, Pages 11-26

  Giles, Teresa M ^a   Newnham, Rewi M ^a   Lowe, David J ^b   Munro, Adam J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; QUATERNARY; TEPHRA; VOLCANISM;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033400294     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.161.01.03     Document Type: Article

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