Radiocarbon: a key tracer for studying Earth's dynamo, climate system, carbon cycle, and Sun

TJ Heaton, E Bard, C Bronk Ramsey, M Butzin… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Radiocarbon (14C) has long been recognized as providing an essential
dating method covering the past 55,000 years. However, the further role of 14C as a …

The major and trace element glass compositions of the productive Mediterranean volcanic sources: tools for correlating distal tephra layers in and around Europe

EL Tomlinson, VC Smith, PG Albert, E Aydar… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The increasing application of cryptotephra studies is leading the identification of new tephra
marker layers the sources of which in many cases may not be known or may be ambiguous …

Cryptotephras: the revolution in correlation and precision dating

SM Davies - Journal of Quaternary Science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
From its Icelandic origins in the study of visible tephra horizons, tephrochronology took a
remarkable step in the late 1980 s with the discovery of a ca. 4300‐year‐old microscopic …

The medial offshore record of explosive volcanism along the central to eastern Aegean Volcanic Arc: 2. Tephra ages and volumes, eruption magnitudes and marine …

S Kutterolf, A Freundt, TH Druitt… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We use the tephrostratigraphic framework along the Aegean Volcanic Arc established in
Part 1 of this contribution to determine hemipelagic sedimentation rates, calculate new …

The marine isotope stage 1–5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean …

S Wulf, MJ Hardiman, RA Staff, A Koutsodendris… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The iconic climate archive of Tenaghi Philippon (TP), NE Greece, allows the study of short-
term palaeoclimatic and environmental change throughout the past 1.3 Ma. To provide high …

Insights into the explosive eruption history of the Campanian volcanoes prior to the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption

SO Vineberg, R Isaia, PG Albert, RJ Brown… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Campanian Volcanic Zone (CVZ) comprises multiple active volcanoes and
includes the highly productive Campi Flegrei and Ischia caldera systems. These caldera …

Evidence for a large-magnitude eruption from Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) at 29 ka

PG Albert, B Giaccio, R Isaia, A Costa… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The 40 ka caldera-forming eruption of Campi Flegrei (Italy) is the largest known eruption in
Europe during the last 200 ky, but little is known about other large eruptions at the volcano …

Dark ophiuroid biodiversity in a prospective abyssal mine field

M Christodoulou, TD O'hara, AF Hugall, PM Arbizu - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
The seafloor contains valuable mineral resources, including polymetallic (or manganese)
nodules that form on offshore abyssal plains. The largest and most commercially attractive …

Correlating tephras and cryptotephras using glass compositional analyses and numerical and statistical methods: review and evaluation

DJ Lowe, NJG Pearce, MA Jorgensen… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
We define tephras and cryptotephras and their components (mainly ash-sized particles of
glass±crystals in distal deposits) and summarize the basis of tephrochronology as a …

First integrated tephrochronological record for the last∼ 190 kyr from the Fucino Quaternary lacustrine succession, central Italy

B Giaccio, EM Niespolo, A Pereira, S Nomade… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present the first integrated tephrochronological study (major and trace elemental glass
composition, Sr and Nd isotope analyses, and 40 Ar/39 Ar dating) for the last one tenth (∼ …