Identification of the late Quaternary tephra layers in the Ulleung Basin of the East Sea using geochemical and statistical methods

Marine Geology

Volumn 244, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 196-208

  Park, Myong Ho ^a   Kim, Ji Hoon ^b   Kil, Young Woo ^a  

^a Korea National Oil Corporation   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

East Sea; Fractional crystallization; late Quaternary; Tephra layer; Trace element; Ulleung Basin

Indexed keywords

AIRA-TANZAWA ERUPTIONS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ATOMIC EMISSION (ICP-AES); LATE QUATERNARY; PISTON CORES; TEPHRA LAYER; ULLEUNG BASIN; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY (XRF);

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAGNETITE; OLIVINE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SEDIMENTS;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEPHRA; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC GLASS; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KYUSHU; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; ULLEUNG BASIN;

AIRA;

EID: 34548526275     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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