Toba supereruption: Age and impact on East African ecosystems

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

Volumn 110, Issue 33, 2013, Pages

  Roberts, Richard G ^a   Storey, Michael ^b   Haslam, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; LAKE; LETTER; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; VEGETATION; VOLCANIC ASH;

CLIMATE; GEOLOGY; HUMANS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84882387128     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308550110     Document Type: Letter

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