Tephra stratigraphy on the north icelandic shelf: Extending tephrochronology into marine sediments off north iceland

Boreas

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 719-734

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LATE GLACIAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANISM;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORTH ICELANDIC SHELF;

BOREAS;

EID: 84866747639     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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