Estimation of eruptive ages of the late Pleistocene tephra layers derived from Daisen and Sambe Volcanoes based on AMS-14C dating of the moor sediments at Ohnuma Moor in the Chugoku Mountains, Western Japan

Nature and Human Activities

Volumn , Issue 11, 2007, Pages 29-50

  Katoh, Shigehiro ^a   Handa, Kumiko ^a   Hyodo, Masayuki ^b   Sato, Hiroshi ^c   Nakamura, Toshio ^d   Yamashita, Tohru ^e   Danhara, Tohru ^e  

^a MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Kyoto Fission Track Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerate mass spectrometric 14C (AMS 14C) dating; Daisen Volcano; Eruption age; Ohnuma moor; Sambe Volcano; Tephra correlation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CORRELATION; MOORLAND; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTARY PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; CHUGOKU MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MOUNT DAISEN; MOUNT SAMBE; SHIMANE; TOTTORI [CHUGOKU];

AIRA;

EID: 34249327318     PISSN: 13420054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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