Millennial-scale phase relationships between ice-core and Mediterranean marine records: Insights from high-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Green Tuff of Pantelleria, Sicily Strait

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 141-154

  Scaillet, S ^a   Vita Scaillet, G ^a   Rotolo, S G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ar Ar dating; Green Tuff; Pantelleria; Radioisotopic timescale; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; GEOMAGNETIC EXCURSIONS; GREEN TUFF; PALEOCLIMATE STUDIES; PANTELLERIA; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOMAGNETISM; VOLCANOES;

ICE CONTROL;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEEP SEA; ICE CORE; MARINE RECORD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECISION; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPELEOTHEM; STRAIT; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TUFF;

STRAIT OF SICILY;

EID: 84883402190     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.008     Document Type: Article

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