Distal tephrochronology in volcanic regions: Challenges and insights from Kamchatkan lake sediments

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 134, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-40

  Plunkett, Gill ^a   Coulter, Sarah E ^a   Ponomareva, Vera V ^b   Blaauw, Maarten ^a   Klimaschewski, Andrea ^a   Hammarlund, Dan ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Age modelling; Distal tephra; Holocene; Kamchatka; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLASS; LAKES;

AGE MODELLING; DISTAL TEPHRA; HOLOCENES; KAMCHATKA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

VOLCANOES;

GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; HOLOCENE; LABORATORY METHOD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84946579804     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.04.006     Document Type: Article

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