Global tephra studies
Subtitle: John Westgate and Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki commemorative volume
By: guest editors, Duane G. Froese ... [et al.].
Contributors: Westgate, J. A.; Sarna-Wojcicki, Andrei M.
Series: Quaternary international -- v. 178
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Volcanic ash, tuff; Congresses; Tephrochronology; Tephra
Notes: "The result of two meetings that brought tephrochronologists together in 2005"--P. [1].
Table of contents: title: Global tephra studies : John Westgate and Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki commemorative volume  -- D.G. Froese ... [et al.]; title: Tephrochronology : an appreciation of the contributions of Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki  -- D.G. Froese, B.V. Alloway and D.J. Lowe; title: Tephrochronology  -- J.L. Slate and J.R. Knott; title: Colin George Vucetich (1918-2007) -- pioneering New Zealand tephrochronologist  -- D.J. Lowe ... [et al.]; title: Mid-Pleistocene silicic tephra beds in the Auckland region, New Zealand : their correlation and origins based on the trace element analyses of single glass shards  -- N.J.G. Pearce, B.V. Alloway and J.A. Westgate; title: Compositional heterogeneity in tephra deposits resulting from the eruption of multiple magma bodies : implications for tephrochronology  -- P. Shane ... [et al.]; title: Development and application of high-resolution petrography on resin-impregnated Holocene peat columns to detect and analyse tephras, cryptotephras, and other materials -- F. De Vleeschouwer ... [et al.]; title: Towards rapid assay of cryptotephra in peat cores : review and evaluation of various methods  -- M.J. Gehrels ... [et al.]; title: Characteristics for the recognition of Pliocene and early Pleistocene marker tephras in central Japan  -- I. Tamura, H. Yamazaki and K. Mizuno; title: Revised age and distribution of ca. 87 ka Aso-4 tephra based on new evidence from the northwest Pacific Ocean  -- K. Aoki; title: Analysis of titanomagnetite within weathered middle Pleistocene KMT tephra and its application for fluvial terrace chronology, Kanto Plain, central Japan  -- T. Suzuki; title: New glass fission-track ages of Middle Pleistocene tephras on Yakushima Island, southern Japan  -- H. Moriwaki ... [et al.]; title: Determining an age for the Inararo Tuff eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, based on correlation with a distal ash layer in core MD97-2142, South China Sea -- Y.-P. Ku ... [et al.]; title: An integrated terrestrial paleoenvironmental record from the Mid-Pleistocene transition, eastern North Island, New Zealand  -- E.M. Kennedy ... [et al.]; title: A widespread ca. 1.1 Ma TVZ silicic tephra preserved near Wellington, New Zealand : implications for regional reconstruction of mid-Pleistocene vegetation  -- D.C. Mildenhall and B.V. Alloway; title: Changing ideas on the identity and stratigraphic significance of the Sheep Creek tephra beds in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, northwestern North America  -- J.A. Westgate ... [et al.]; title: Stratigraphic and compositional comlexities of the late Quaternary Lethe tephra in South-central Alaska  -- J.R. Riehle ... [et al.]; title: Pumice in the interglacial Whidbey Formation at Blowers Bluff, central Whidbey Island, WA, USA  -- D.P. Dethier ... [et al.]; title: Late Pleistocene Hansel Valley basaltic ash, northern Lake Bonneville, Utah, USA -- D.M. Miller, C.G. Oviatt and B.P. Nash; title: Geochemical correlation and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of the Kern River ash bed and related tephra layers : implications for the stratigraphy of petroleum-bearing formations in the San Joaquin Valley, California  -- D. Baron ... [et al.]; title: Quaternary tephrochronology helps define conditioning factors and triggering mechanisms of rock avalanches in NW Argentina  -- R.L. Hermanns and A. Schellenberger; title: Ordovician K-bentonites : issues in interpreting and correlating ancient tephras  -- W.D. Huff; title: Geochemical characterization of Quaternary tephras from the Campanian Province, Italy  -- C.S.M. Turney ... [et al.]; title: Compositional and textural correlations between Olduvai Gorge Bed I tephra and volcanic sources in the Ngorongoro Volcanic Highlands, Tanzania -- L.J. McHenry, G.F. Mollel and C.C. Swisher III.