Tephra layers in the Siple Dome and Taylor Dome ice cores, Antarctica: Sources and correlations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Dunbar, Nelia W ^a   Zielinski, Gregory A ^b   Voisins, Daniel T ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROVENANCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0344944755     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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