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QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
卷 246, 期 -, 页码 344-351出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.026
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- Massey University [MURF 08/0061]
- B & W Curiosity Fund
- INTREPID project Enhancing tephrochronology as a global research tool through improved fingerprinting and correlation techniques and uncertainty modelling [0907]
The Whakatane Tephra, a rhyolitic tephra erupted ca. 5500 cal. BP from Okataina Volcanic Centre, central North Island, has been identified on the Chatham Islands which lie similar to 900 km east of Christchurch, New Zealand. The visible tephra layer, similar to 5 mm in thickness and preserved within peat on Pitt Island, was identified using both radiocarbon dating and analysis of glass shards by electron microprobe. Whakatane Tephra is the first Holocene tephra to be identified on the Chatham Islands, and it is the most-distal Holocene tephra yet recorded in the New Zealand region, being similar to 850 km from source. The Pitt Island occurrence extends the tephra's dispersal area markedly, by an order of magnitude, possibly to similar to 300,000 km(2). An estimated dispersal index (D) of approximately 10(5) km(2) indicates that the eruption generated a very high plinian column, possibly exceeding similar to 30 km in height, with strong winds blowing the ash plume southeastwards. This new discovery of distal Whakatane Tephra as a thin but visible layer strongly implies that cryptotephras are likely to be preserved on the Chatham Islands and within adjacent ocean floor sediments. Therefore the potential exists to develop enhanced cryptotephrostratigraphic records from these distal areas, which in turn would help facilitate precise correlation via tephrochronology of palaeoenvironmental records (such as NZ-INTIMATE) from mainland New Zealand, the southwest Pacific Ocean, and the Chatham Islands. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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