The Icelandic Laki volcanic tephra layer in the Lomonosovfonna ice core, Svalbard

Polar Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 33-40

  Kekonen, Teija ^a,b   Moore, John ^b   Perämäki, Paavo ^a   Martma, Tõnu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE CAP; SULFUR; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

EID: 22944487962     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2005.tb00138.x     Document Type: Article

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