Mammoth bones embedded in a late Pleistocene lahar from Popocatépetl volcano, near Tocuila, central México

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1550-1562

  Siebe, Claus ^a   Schaaf, Peter ^a   Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANIMALS; BONE; CHARCOAL; FALLOUT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANOES;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FALLOUT DEPOSITS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HUMID CONDITIONS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PLINIAN ERUPTION; RADIOCARBON AGE;

DEPOSITS;

LAHAR; PLEISTOCENE; VOLCANO;

MEXICO; POPOCATEPETL;

MAMMUTHUS;

EID: 0033450850     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1550:MBEIAL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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