Quaternary tephra marker beds and their potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction on Chatham Island, east of New Zealand, southwest Pacific Ocean

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1169-1178

  Holt, Katherine A ^a   Wallace, R Clel ^a   Neall, Vincent E ^a   Kohn, Barry P ^b   Lowe, David J ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chatham Islands; Chronostratigraphy; INTIMATE; Kawakawa tephra; Long Distance pollen; MIS 10; MIS 2; New Zealand; Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; Rangitawa tephra; Tephra; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FISSION TRACK DATING; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MINERALOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; RHYOLITE; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

CHATHAM ISLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EUTHYNNUS AFFINIS;

EID: 77958096473     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1397     Document Type: Article

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