Stratigraphy and chronology of a 15 ka sequence of multi-sourced silicic tephras in a montane peat bog, eastern North Island, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 565-579

  Lowe, David J ^a   Newnham, Rewi M ^b   Ward, Chris M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Glass analysis; Holocene; Kaipo Bog; Late Quaternary; Lateglacial; New Zealand; Peat; Radiocarbon dates; Te Urewera National Park; Tephra; Tephrochronology; Tephrostratigraphy; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PEAT; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANISM;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TE UREWERA NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 0033506148     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1999.9514863     Document Type: Article

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