Youngest Toba Tuff in the Son Valley, India: A weak and discontinuous stratigraphic marker

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 27-28, 2011, Pages 3925-3934

  Gatti, E ^a   Durant, A J ^a,b,c   Gibbard, P L ^a   Oppenheimer, C ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Le Studium   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Fluvial geomorphology; Son Valley; Tephra; Toba

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS; ASH DEPOSITS; ASH LAYER; BED FORMS; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HUMAN POPULATION; SON VALLEY; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; SUMATRA; TAPHONOMY; TEPHRA; TOBA;

DEPOSITS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; STRATIGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ASH FLOW; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DISCONTINUITY LAYER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MARKER BED; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; TAPHONOMY; TUFF; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIA; SON VALLEY; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; TOBA CALDERA;

EID: 82355175104     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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