Differentiating the Bishop ash bed and related tephra layers by elemental-based similarity coefficients of volcanic glass shards using solution inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (S-ICP-MS)

Quaternary International

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-86

  Knott, Jeffrey R ^a   Sarna Wojcicki, Andrei M ^b   Montañez, Isabel P ^c   Wan, Elmira ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASH; DATABASE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENT; TUFF; VOLCANIC GLASS;

GLASS MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

PROSOPIS;

EID: 34247232527     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.12.014     Document Type: Article

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