Age and significance of the Late Pleistocene Dawson tephra in eastern Beringia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 20-22, 2002, Pages 2137-2142

  Froese, Duane ^a   Westgate, John ^b   Preece, Shari ^b   Storer, John ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Government of Yukon   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS;

VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

VOLCANOES;

BERINGIA; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; WISCONSINAN;

CANADA;

EID: 0038545213     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(02)00038-0     Document Type: Article

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