Correlation and stratigraphy of the BKT-2 volcanic complex in west-central Afar, Ethiopia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 446, Issue , 2008, Pages 163-177

  DiMaggio, Erin N ^a   Campisano, Christopher J ^b   Arrowsmith, J Ramón ^a   Reed, Kaye E ^b   Swisher Iii, Carl C ^c   Lockwood, Charles A ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afar Depression; Hadar Formation; Paleoenvironment; Pliocene; Tephrochronology; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

AFAR DEPRESSION; HADAR FORMATION; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIATOMITE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FACIES; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TUFF;

AFAR; ETHIOPIA; HADAR;

EID: 75449092000     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2446(07)     Document Type: Article

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