A tephra chronostratigraphic framework for the Frontier Mountain blue-ice field (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 602-620

  Curzio, Pietro ^a   Folco, Luigi ^a   Ada Laurenzi, Marinella ^b   Mellini, Marcello ^a   Zeoli, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ICE; SAMPLING;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; TEPHRA CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK;

BIOMARKERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CENOZOIC; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ICE CORE; METEORITE; PARTICLE SIZE; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; FRONTIER MOUNTAIN; TALOS DOME;

EID: 40849100059     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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