Ash from Changbaishan Millennium eruption recorded in Greenland ice: Implications for determining the eruption's timing and impact

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 694-701

  Sun, Chunqing ^a,b   Plunkett, Gill ^c   Liu, Jiaqi ^a   Zhao, Hongli ^c   Sigl, Michael ^d   McConnell, Joseph R ^d   Pilcher, Jonathan R ^c   Vinther, Bo ^e   Steffensen, J P ^e   Hall, Valerie ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Eldgj eruption; Greenland; Millennium Eruption; tephra; Tianchi, Changbaishan; volcanic impact

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

GREENLAND; MILLENNIUM ERUPTION; TEPHRA; TIANCHI, CHANGBAISHAN; VOLCANIC IMPACTS;

VOLCANOES;

CLIMATE FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRIP; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIATION BALANCE; STRATOSPHERE; SULFATE; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC GLASS;

ARCTIC; BAEKDU MOUNTAIN; CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84893170354     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058642     Document Type: Article

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