Use of magnetic signatures to correlate tephra layers in Holocene loessial soil profiles from a small region, SE Iceland

Environmental Geology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1425-1437

  Xia, Dunsheng ^a,b   Chun, Xi ^c   Bloemendal, Jan ^b   Chiverrell, Richard C ^b   Chen, Fahu ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental magnetism; Iceland; Principal coordinates analysis; Tephra

Indexed keywords

FERRIMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROCKS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM; ICELAND; PRINCIPAL COORDINATES ANALYSIS; TEPHRA;

SOILS;

GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LOESS; MAGNETIC METHOD; MAGNETITE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SOIL PROFILE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EUCLIDIA;

EID: 33846963842     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0439-2     Document Type: Article

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