40Ar/39Ar dating on tephra of the Velay maars (France): Implications for the Late Pleistocene proxy-climatic record

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 287-299

  Roger, Stéphan ^a   Féraud, Gilbert ^b   De Beaulieu, Jacques Louis ^c   Thouveny, Nicolas ^d   Coulon, Christian ^a   Jacques Cochemé, Jean ^a   Andrieu, Valérie ^c   Williams, Trevor ^e  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CEREGE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39; Geochronology; Maars; Magneti c susceptibility; Palaeoclimatology; Palynology; Pyroclastics; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; MAAR; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

FRANCE;

EID: 0345493757     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00115-6     Document Type: Article

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