A new Eemian record of Antarctic tephra layers retrieved from the Talos Dome ice core (Northern Victoria Land)

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Author: Narcisi, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: Northern Victoria Land volcanism; Antarctic ice core; Tephrostratigraphy; Last Interglacial; Glass shard microanalysi; Tephra layers; Antarctic; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Pleiades; Rittmann; Talos Dome; The Pleiades; Victoria Land; Antarc*; ice core
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12079/2298; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.12.016; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84953299441&partnerID=40&md5=659f312111c111093764878033206f8a

Polar ice sheets are remarkable repositories of tephra layers. The Talos Dome ice core (72°49'S, 159°11'E), drilled at the edge of the East Antarctic Plateau, close to Late Quaternary volcanoes, offers considerable potential to extend the current tephra time-stratigraphic framework. A teph...