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An Exceptionally Thick Middle Pleistocene Tephra Layer from Epirus, Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David M. Pyle,
Tjeerd H. van Andel,
Panayiotis Paschos and
Paul van den Bogaard
David M. Pyle
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
Tjeerd H. van Andel
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
Panayiotis Paschos
Affiliation:
Institute for Geology and Mineral Exploration, Prevezza, Greece
Paul van den Bogaard
Affiliation:
Geomar FZ, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
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Abstract

A newly recognized 2-m-thick trachytic volcanic ash deposit from northwestern Greece is dated at 374,000 ± 7000 yr and correlated with the Middle Pleistocene volcanic activity of central Italy. The deposit represents ash fallout from one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Europe of the past 400,000 yr and should provide an important stratigraphic marker within the poorly dated Middle Pleistocene deposits of Italy and Greece.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , May 1998, pp. 280 - 286
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University of Washington

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