A Holocene tephra record from the Lofoten Islands, Arctic Norway

Boreas

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 136-156

  Pilcher, Jon ^a   Bradley, Raymond S ^b   Francus, Pierre ^c   Anderson, Lesleigh ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; TEPHRA;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LOFOTEN; NORDLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

EID: 18844425947     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2005.tb01011.x     Document Type: Article

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