40 Ar/ 39 Ar geochronology of Roman volcanic province tephra in the Tiber River valley: age calibration of middle Pleistocene sea-level changes

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 740-747

  Karner, Daniel B ^a   Renne, Paul R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RIVERS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES;

ANALYTICAL ERRORS; ANALYTICAL UNCERTAINTY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GLACIAL TERMINATIONS; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA-LEVEL OSCILLATIONS; VOLCANIC DISTRICT;

SEA LEVEL;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL; TEPHRA;

ITALY;

EID: 84879881784     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0740:AAGORV>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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