Australasian microtektites and associated impact ejecta in the South China Sea and the Middle Pleistocene supereruption of Toba

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 305-326

  Glass, Billy P ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EJECTA; IMPACT STRUCTURE; PLEISTOCENE; TEKTITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; LAKE TOBA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 33645469256     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00211.x     Document Type: Article

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