Ash from the Toba supereruption in Lake Malawi shows no volcanic winter in East Africa at 75 ka

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 8025-8029

  Lane, Christine S ^a   Chorn, Ben T ^b   Johnson, Thomas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LAKE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; VOLCANIC ASH; WINTER;

AFRICA, EASTERN; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; GLASS; HUMANS; LAKES; MALAWI; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PALEONTOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84877870770     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301474110     Document Type: Article

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