Mid-Pleistocene silicic tephra beds in the Auckland region, New Zealand: Their correlation and origins based on the trace element analyses of single glass shards

Quaternary International

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-43

  Pearce, Nicholas J G ^a   Alloway, Brent V ^b   Westgate, John A ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNIMBRITE; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; PLAGIOCLASE; PLEISTOCENE; TEPHRA; TRACE ELEMENT;

AUCKLAND; AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 40849096482     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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