Extending the late holocene tephrochronology of the central Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Arctic

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-254

  Payne, Richard J ^a,b   Blackford, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alaska; Cryptotephra; Electron probe microanalysis; Peatlands; Tephra; Volcanoes

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; PEATLAND; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ALASKA; KENAI PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52749085855     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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