Identification of a widespread Kamchatkan tephra: A middle Pleistocene tie-point between Arctic and Pacific paleoclimatic records

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Ponomareva Vera, Portnyagin Maxim, Derkachev Alexander, Juschus Olaf, Garbe-Schönberg Dieter, Nürnberg Dirk
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: 38.37.25 Вулканология; Arctic; Pacific; Rauchua; Kamchatka; Siberia
• Online Access: http://repo.kscnet.ru/1048/; http://repo.kscnet.ru/1048/1/grl.50645; https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50645

Very few age controls exist for Quaternary deposits over the vast territory of the East Russian Arctic, which hampers dating of major environmental changes in this area and prevents their correlation to climatic changes in the Arctic and Pacific marine domains. We report a newly identified ~177 ka o...