Tephrochronology and its application: a review

DJ Lowe - Quaternary Geochronology, 2011 - Elsevier
Tephrochronology (from tephra, Gk 'ashes') is a unique stratigraphic method for linking,
dating, and synchronizing geological, palaeoenvironmental, or archaeological sequences or …

Tephrochronology: a New Zealand case study

P Shane - Earth-Science Reviews, 2000 - Elsevier
Tephrochronology is the study of volcanic ash (tephra) beds for the purpose of correlating
and dating volcanic and other geologic events. Large magnitude silicic eruptions can …

Mammalian biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through early Pliocene epochs)

RH Tedford, LB Albright, AD Barnosky… - Late Cretaceous and …, 2004 - degruyter.com
S. David Webb, and David P. Whistler united on taxonomic (usually species-level) content
rather than empirical occurrence. They resemble neontological “faunas” as they characterize …

Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow

RB Smith, M Jordan, B Steinberger, CM Puskas… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2009 - Elsevier
Integration of geophysical and geological data show that the Yellowstone hotspot resulted
from a mantle plume interacting with the overriding North America plate, a process that has …

A first chronology for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core

SO Rasmussen, PM Abbott, T Blunier… - Climate of the …, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
A stratigraphy-based chronology for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice
core has been derived by transferring the annual layer counted Greenland Ice Core …

Cenozoic paleoclimate on land in North America

GJ Retallack - The Journal of Geology, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
Paleotemperature and paleoprecipitation over the past 40 m. yr. can be inferred from the
degree of chemical weathering and depth of carbonate nodules in paleosols of Oregon …

Identification and elimination of a matrix-induced systematic error in LA–ICP–MS 206Pb/238U dating of zircon

CM Allen, IH Campbell - Chemical Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Link references in abstract. Black et al.(2004) identified a systematic difference between LA–
ICP–MS and TIMS measurements of 206Pb/238U in zircons, which they correlated with the …

Environmental change in the Great Plains: an isotopic record from fossil horses

BH Passey, TE Cerling, ME Perkins… - The Journal of …, 2002 - journals.uchicago.edu
Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of fossil horse tooth enamel from Nebraska and Texas
show evidence for late Neogene environmental changes in the Great Plains. The earliest …

Is the track of the Yellowstone hotspot driven by a deep mantle plume?—Review of volcanism, faulting, and uplift in light of new data

KL Pierce, LA Morgan - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2009 - Elsevier
Geophysical imaging of a tilted mantle plume extending at least 500 km beneath the
Yellowstone caldera provides compelling support for a plume origin of the entire …

'Snake River (SR)-type'volcanism at the Yellowstone hotspot track: distinctive products from unusual, high-temperature silicic super-eruptions

MJ Branney, B Bonnichsen, GDM Andrews, B Ellis… - Bulletin of …, 2008 - Springer
A new category of large-scale volcanism, here termed Snake River (SR)-type volcanism, is
defined with reference to a distinctive volcanic facies association displayed by Miocene …