Do peatlands or lakes provide the most comprehensive distal tephra records?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 139, Issue , 2016, Pages 110-128

  Watson, E J ^a   Swindles, G T ^a   Lawson, I T ^b   Savov, I P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basalt; Cryptotephra; Holocene; Northern Europe; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CATCHMENTS; FALLOUT; STRATIGRAPHY; WETLANDS;

CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CRYPTOTEPHRA; HOLOCENES; MID TO LATE HOLOCENE; NORTHERN EUROPE; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY;

LAKES;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BASALT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PEATLAND; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84977126596     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.011     Document Type: Article

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