Discovery of the Toba Ash (c. 70 ka) in a high-resolution core recovering millennial monsoonal variability off Pakistan

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 195, Issue , 2002, Pages 445-461

  von Rad, Ulrich ^a   Burgath, Klaus Peter ^a   Pervaz, Muhammad ^b   Schulz, Hartmut ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b Hydrocarbon Dev Inst of Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ASH;

ARABIAN SEA;

PLINIA;

EID: 0037005450     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.195.01.25     Document Type: Article

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