Using tephrochronology to date temperate ice: correlation between ice tephras on Livingston Island and eruptive units on Deception Island volcano (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Pallàs, Raimon, Smellie, John L., Casas, Joseph M., Calvet, Jaume
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arnold 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Bransfield Strait; Deception Island; Livingston Island; Crater Lake; Telefon Bay; Vapour Col; Wensleydale; Wensleydale Beacon; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20154/; http://hol.sagepub.com/content/11/2/149.short

Tephra layers are interstratified in the ice caps of the South Shetland Islands. Although previously poorly investigated, they are potential targets for the application of tephrochronology and, hence, may provide temporal constraints on glaciological models for the region. Several tephra layers crop...