Identification and definition of primary and reworked tephra in Late Glacial and Holocene marine shelf sediments off North Iceland

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 589-602

  Gudmundsdóttir, Esther Ruth ^a   Eiríksson, Jón ^a   Larsen, Gudrún ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Morphology; Primary; Reworked; Tephra; Tephrochronology; Time signal

Indexed keywords

CORE ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LATE GLACIAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PARAMETERIZATION; SHELF SEDIMENT; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ICELAND;

EID: 79957645179     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1474     Document Type: Article

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