A revised age for the Kawakawa/Oruanui tephra, a key marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in New Zealand

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 195-201

  Vandergoes, Marcus J ^a,d   Hogg, Alan G ^b   Lowe, David J ^b   Newnham, Rewi M ^c   Denton, George H ^d   Southon, John ^e   Barrell, David J A ^a   Wilson, Colin J N ^c   McGlone, Matt S ^f   Allan, Aidan S R ^c   Almond, Peter C ^g   Petchey, Fiona ^b   Dabell, Kathleen ^b   Dieffenbacher Krall, Ann C ^d   Blaauw, Maarten ^h  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^g LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^h QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

14C dating; Chronostratigraphy; Isochron; Kawakawa Oruanui tephra; Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); Marine reservoir ages; New Zealand; NZ climate event stratigraphy; Oruanui eruption; Paleoclimate; Southwest Pacific; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

14C DATING; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE EVENT; ISOCHRON; KAWAKAWA/ORUANUI TEPHRA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE RESERVOIR AGES; NEW ZEALAND; ORUANUI ERUPTION; PALEOCLIMATES; SOUTHWEST PACIFIC; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AGE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84880616278     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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