Provenance of basaltic tephra from vatnajökull subglacial volcanoes, iceland, as determined by major- and trace-element analyses

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1037-1048

  Óladóttir, Bergrún Arna ^a,b   Sigmarsson, Olgeir ^a,b   Larsen, Gudrún ^a   Devidal, Jean Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

B rdarbunga Veidiv tn; basaltic tephra; chemical composition; Gr msv tn; Kverkfj ll; tephra provenance

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BASALT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; ICE CAP; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; PROVENANCE; SOIL PROFILE; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ICELAND;

EID: 80053208882     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611400456     Document Type: Article

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