Significance and timing of the mid-17th-century eruption of Long Island, Papua New Guinea

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Blong, Russell, Fallon, Stewart, Wood, Rachel, McKee, Chris, Chen, Keping, Magill, Christina, Barter, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sage Publications Inc
• Subjects: eruption implications; Long Island; oral history; Papua New Guinea; radiocarbon dating; volcanic forcing; Bismarck; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/254490; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683617735589; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/254490/3/01_Blong_Significance_and_timing_of_the_2018.pdf.jpg

Tibito Tephra was first recorded in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1971. By the late 1970s, the tephra had been mapped across tens of thousands of square kilometres, traced to its source on Long Island in the Bismarck Sea, and linked to pyroclastic density currents in the Matapun...