Construction of volcanic records from marine sediment cores: A review and case study (Montserrat, West Indies)

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 138, Issue , 2014, Pages 137-155

  Cassidy, Michael ^a   Watt, Sebastian F L ^a,b   Palmer, Martin R ^a   Trofimovs, Jessica ^c   Symons, William ^a   Maclachlan, Suzanne E ^d   Stinton, Adam J ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e MONTSERRAT VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (Montserrat)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Cryptotephras; Eruption history; Reworked volcaniclastic; Tephra fallout; Tephrochronology; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CORE ANALYSIS; FALLOUT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANISM; VOLCANOLOGY;

LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; MONTSERRAT;

EID: 84907083945     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.08.008     Document Type: Review

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