Chronostratigraphy and correlation of the Plio-Pleistocene tephra layers of the Konso Formation, southern Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1305-1317

  Katoh, Shigehiro ^a   Nagaoka, Shinji ^b   WoldeGabriel, Giday ^c   Renne, Paul ^d   Snow, Majorie G ^c   Beyene, Yonas ^e   Suwa, Gen ^f  

^a Division of Earth Sciences   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^e Ministry of Information and Culture   (Ethiopia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0033860310     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00099-2     Document Type: Article

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