Revised calendar date for the Taupo eruption derived by 14C wiggle-matching using a New Zealand kauri 14C calibration data set

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 439-449

  Hogg, Alan ^a   Lowe, David J ^a   Palmer, Jonathan ^b   Boswijk, Gretel ^c   Bronk Ramsey, Christopher ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b Gondwana Tree Ring Laboratory   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

14C wiggle match dating; chronostratigraphic marker bed; dendrochronology; kauri; late Holocene; New Zealand; non welded ignimbrite; radiocarbon; Taupo eruption; Taupo tephra; tephrochronometry

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CALIBRATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; ICE CORE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RHYOLITE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

ARCTIC; CHINA; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ITALY; LAZIO; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; PUREORA FOREST PARK; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE; WAIKATO;

AGATHIS AUSTRALIS; PHYLLOCLADUS TRICHOMANOIDES;

EID: 84858267198     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611425551     Document Type: Article

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