South Pole ice core record of explosive volcanic eruptions in the first and second millennia A.D. and evidence of a large eruption in the tropics around 535 A.D.

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Ferris, Dave G ^a   Cole Dai, Jihong ^a   Reyes, Angelica R ^a   Budner, Drew M ^b  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; POLES; STRATIGRAPHY; TROPICS; VOLCANOES;

ACCUMULATION RATES; ANTARCTICA; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; ICE CORE; ICE CORE RECORDS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SOUTH POLE; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANIC EVENT; VOLCANIC HISTORY;

ICE;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATING METHOD; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; ICE CORE; ICE THICKNESS; RECONSTRUCTION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SULFATE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; SOUTH POLE;

EID: 80053058349     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015916     Document Type: Article

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